Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
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