We would allow the champions of poetry -- men who do not practise the art themselves, but are lovers of it -- to offer a prose defence on its behalf, showing that poetry is a source not only of pleasure, but also of benefit to communities and to the life of man. And we shall listen graciously.--Plato, Republic, book 10
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Poetics
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