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Plato, By The Way, Wanted To Banish All Poets From His Proposed Utopia Because They Were Liars.
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Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia
because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers
couldn't compete successfully with poets.
-- Kilgore Trout (Philip J. Farmer) Venus on the Half
Shell
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Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.
The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets....
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars.
The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets....
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. -- T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinge
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them
and the truth of truths is love....
Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we aren't poets.
Until philosophers are kings ... cities will never cease from ill, nor the human race.
-- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
Poets go from bad to verse.