Are Knowledge and Art Opposed?
On Mary Ruefle and Kabbalah
The poet Mary Ruefle writes, “My allegiance to poetry, to art, is greater than my allegiance to knowledge and intelligence.”
Do you think art and knowledge are opposed? Do you have an allegiance to one over the other? What does it mean to pledge allegiance to art or knowledge, in the first place?
Ruefle’s statement at seems to capture everything that is b…
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