art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people’s hearts.

Taha Muhammad Ali, So What: New and Selected Poems, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin)
https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/so-what-new-and-selected-poems-by-taha-muhammad-ali/

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