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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....
• 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.
• Poets go from bard to verse.
• What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B...