The greatest flaw of modern civilization is its inability to "feel" and "imagine," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, told a University of Minnesota audience Sunday.
"Far more than we need an intercontinental missile or a moral rearmament or a religious revival, we need to come alive again, to recover the virility of the imagination on which all earlier civilizations have been based," the Pulitzer-prize winning poet said.
MacLeish spoke on "Poetry and Journalism" at the eighth of the University's Gideon Seymour lectures, a series named for a late Minneapolis newspaper editor.
Knowledge without feeling is not knowledge and leads only to "public irresponsibility and indifference, and conceivably to ruin," MacLeish asserted.
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