A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed.  They are made up, but …

The paradox of the arts is that they are all made up and yet they allow us to get at truths about who and what we are or might be. 

Source: Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected prose 1971-2001 (London: Faber and Faber, 2003), p. 69

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