Mustafa 21 on Nostr: What is a star (or sky) for an astronomer and what is it for a poet, and which of the ...
What is a star (or sky) for an astronomer and what is it for a poet, and which of the two is right? To an astronomer, the sky is an empty, desolate space that embodies a kind of algebra (or geometry). To a poet, stars are shimmering messages that create melancholy emotions, or symbols of eternity and order above a transient, forever changing world. Again we have two truths. What should one teach a child irst: a beautiful poem about the moon or astronomic information about it?
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