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Introduction
Is art really important? If so, what are the evidence-
based facts, the “metrics,” that prove its importance?
Or, is the value of art fundamentally not quantifiable?1
A premise of this book is that art is important because
art is part of that nebulous, unquantifiable dimension
of reality we sometimes call “the poetic.” Religion,
magic, and even love, beauty, and other forms of
non-rational understanding also fall into this category.
The poetic transcends the practical imperatives of life—
and yet it is a building-block of the identities we assign
to ourselves. The poetic is also (importantly) a well-
spring of joy, hope, pleasure, and wonder. . . . It is a
source of comfort and consolation when our fellow
humans beings let us down, and when we feel that the
universe really doesn’t care . . .