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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary o...

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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 ...

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens l...