Words Worth Noting - May 5, 2022

“It was perhaps never so necessary as now that we should know why the arts are important and avoid inadequate answers. It will probably become increasingly more important in the future. Remarks such as these, it is true, are often uttered by enthusiastic persons, and are apt to be greeted with the same smile as the assertion that the future of England is bound up with Hunting.”

I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism (and written in 1924, as if to prove his point)