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Poetry

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. - Plato.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. – Socrates.