Quoetry

Quoem 17: Plato and On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley


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Today's quotation is from Plato: "Virtue owns no master: he who honors her shall have more of her, and he who slights her, less." Today's poem is by Phillis Wheatley - who was herself the subject of a poem by Jupiter Hammon, a poem I fear I might find too sad to recite - this instead is one of her own, "On Virtue".
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QuoetryBy Thom Jenkins