All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund BurkePoetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Edmund Burke