Culture

017 - Culture
by Saleh Badrah

We must cultivate our garden.
~ Voltaire (1694-1778)

Culture is the cultivation of the self,
The weeding out of inner rotten weeds,
The getting rid of inner "stony rubbish",
The steady noiseless maturation of the intellect,
And not those shallow clownish expositions
Or those flashy academic exhibitions.

Published in the Saudi Gazette, Thursday, 21 May 1998
Copyright © Saleh Badrah