“Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.” TwoBookEnjoyPoetDrugMedicineAddictionCurrentsBrilliantVersionsNonsenseOrthodoxObserversDrug AddictionDrug AddictGetting HighTheodoreRomantic Poet Author:Kenneth Minogue
“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.” MenPoetMusicianFundamentalsMedicineDetermineMissionsDancerPriestsSwingsExistentialFulfillingRequirements Book:The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy Source: The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.” KnowsWellsReasonPoetrySpeakHealingBeautyGraceObjectsPoetOughtMathematicsMedicineProofMedicalMathematicalPoetry IsMathematical Beauty Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.” PeopleCarePoetBabyMedicineFearlessGrandmotherChemistryMexicoSongwritersMy GrandmotherEnergeticDelivering1930sArranged Marriage Author:Salma Hayek
“I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.” ThinkingWantEarthWaterRecordsSpecialCenturyPoetWake UpMedicineCleanInsightAccessViolentEtcDictatorship20th CenturyFascistsGrotesqueGreat PoetClean WaterOdesGood RecordsLenin And Stalin Author:Robert Hass