Donald McGilchrist on the Art of Writing
“Art encompasses the satisfaction of words well used.
Poetry and rhetoric and just plain stories are definitely part of our artistic heritage.
Most of life cannot be reduced to watertight propositions or exhaustively described.
Our finitude guarantees error, whether or not we realize our mistakes.
But from Homer onwards, words carry and describe our deep engagement with reality and our deep longing to transcend our daily contexts.”
Writers? You may start your typewriters/laptops and create some art!
Thanks Donald
June 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I am currently reading a book entitled “The Healing Power of Stories” by Daniel Taylor; it with another of his books “The Myth of Certainty” are succinctly summarized by this statement. Thanks so much for the quote.