Themes
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
— John Dryden
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Human craft is fallible and can go wrong, the line claims, while the natural order never misses its mark. It sets deliberate artistry against nature's reliability, suggesting that our made things carry mistakes that the world's own processes somehow avoid. It is a compact statement of trust in nature.
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