Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. For me poetry is the closest thing to truth. I can see truth through poems. I can see it in my dreams, in my life, in my feelings, in thoughts. It is the part of me that never changes.

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