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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.