"Poetry, like all art, has a trinitarian function: creative, redemptive,
and sanctifying. It is creative because it takes the raw materials of
fact and feeling and makes them into that which is neither fact nor
feeling. Redemptive because it transforms pain, ugliness of life into
joy, beauty. Sanctifying because it gives the transitory a relative form
of meaning."
Hat tip and thank you to Brain Pickings for quoting this today, and for reminding me of Vassar Miller's poetry.
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