"I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives - philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social. In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of the greatest storytellers of the 20th century, was born on this day in 1902 in Leoncin, Poland. On his 115th birthday, these are some of the lessons the Nobel Prize-winning writer left behind.
