"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."
— Poetry

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836), Ch. 8; Emerson ascribed this to Plato but it is actually a paraphrasing by Emerson of two quotations from Plato and Aristotle.