parabola-magazine: Of the heavens which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?… There abides the very being with which true knowledge is concerned; the colorless, formless, intangible essence … knowledge absolute in existence absolute…–PLATO, from PHAEDRUS (360 B.C.E.), Benjamin Jowett, trans. from ENDPOINT, PARABOLA, Fall 2012, “The Unknown.” Illustration from The Heavenly Tenants by Ilonka Karasz, and written by William Maxwell (Harper).

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Of the heavens which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?… There abides the very being with which true knowledge is concerned; the colorless, formless, intangible essence … knowledge absolute in existence absolute…

–PLATO, from PHAEDRUS (360 B.C.E.), Benjamin Jowett, trans. from ENDPOINT, PARABOLA, Fall 2012, “The Unknown.”

Illustration from The Heavenly Tenants by Ilonka Karasz, and written by William Maxwell (Harper).

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