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Poetry is above all else a branch of wisdom,
godly in source and sense, sustenance for the listener;
still more does it please the virtuous man who hears it.
Verse is good at saying long things shortly.
--From the Prologue to "The Knight in the Panther Skin" ("Vepkhistqaosani") by Shota Rustaveli (ca 1200), from Georgia. From The Elek Book of Oriental Verse (1979), Gen. Ed. Keith Bosley.
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