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95 Yale L.J. 857 (1985-1986)
Agon at Agora: Creative Misreadings in the First Amendment Tradition

handle is hein.journals/ylr95 and id is 876 raw text is: The Yale Law Journal Volume 95, Number 5, April 1986 Articles Agon at Agora: Creative Misreadings in the First Amendment Tradition David Cole- Of course, the law is not the place for the artist or the poet. The law is the calling of thinkers. But to those who believe with me that not the least godlike of man's activities is the large survey of causes, that to know is not less than tofeel, I say-and I say no longer with any doubt-that a man may live greatly in the law as well as else- where; that there as well as elsewhere his thought may find its unity in an infinite perspective; that there as well as elsewhere he may wreak himself upon life, may drink the bitter cup of heroism, may wear his heart out after the unattainable. -Oliver Wendell Holmes* [T]o be judicious is to be weak, and to compare exactly and fairly is to be not elect .... -Harold Bloom** t Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York. This article, which cele- brates the efforts of lone individuals, could not have been written without the assistance of many, including Ellen Hertz, David Nied, Dan Ortiz and Nina Pillard. Special thanks are owed to Owen Fiss, who first showed me that there is room for poetic greatness in the law by strongly misreading the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. * O.W. HOLMES, The Profession of the Law, in CoLLEcTFD LEGAL PAPERS 29-30 (1920). ** H. BLOOM, THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE 19 (1973).