+1Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
- Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honore De Balzac
- History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. - Norman O. Brown
- History is still in large measure poetry to me. - Jakob Burckhardt
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato
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