"But poets have been challenged to resign the civic crown to reasoners and mechanists, on another plea. It is admitted that the exercise of the imagination is most delightful, but it is alleged that that of reason is more useful...
It was not until the eleventh century that the effects of the poetry of the Christian and chivalric systems began to manifest..
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.."
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm
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