+1Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle
- Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. - Aristotle
- History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. - A. L. Rowse
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. - Brooks Atkinson
- Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. - Henry David Thoreau
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