Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"He was a wise man who invented God."
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."