No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

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There are two sides to being a great poet. You have to be a good philosopher as well as a good poet. The Greeks put philosophy and poetry together as one, so it’s true that people who can write poetry but don’t have any philosophical knowledge are not really poets.

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