Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

诗歌比历史更优美，更富有哲理;因为诗歌表达的是普遍性，而历史只表达的是特殊性。

-- Aristotle 亚里士多德