The art of not knowing

Philosophers, historians, sociologists, even theologians have precise tools available to them. But we makers of poems and stories and essays wouldn’t trade with them. Wielding the mighty instrument of speculation – to try to know what we can’t really know – is the most thrilling experience available to an artist.

David Huddle writing in the May 2011 edition of Brevity, the online journal of concise creative nonfiction.