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I consider poetry to be a grand form of human culture but poets to be, quite often, victims of their own conceit, emotionalism, hallucination, and wishful thinking. Plato severely criticized them. Muhammed wrote harshly in the Holy Koran: "And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them; do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley? And they say that which they do not do."

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 55