Since the Nobel Prize has been in the news lately, here is a related story that’s worth revisiting.
In his acceptance speech upon being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Chilean poet, writer, and diplomat Pablo Neruda transformed his dramatic ordeal through the treacherous Andes Mountains to Argentina escaping political prosecution, into a testament to the fundamentality of poetry – and subsequently art itself – in making us human and making our lives matter.
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Eye on the East 