"Whatever inspiration is," the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'"And yet, with our reflex for teleological thinking - that childish grab at "I know!" - we habitually cut ourselves off from the mystery that houses the most creative, and therefore the most vulnerable and alive, part of our own souls, forgetting what Carl Sagan's ghost so poetically reminds us: that "the universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it."
#back #possibility #effectively #temporarily #vulnerability #permanently #imagination #human-beings #solitary-confinement
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