Green-Eyed Monsters and Good Samaritans Quotes

“As we looking into the history of writing, some fascinating facts immediately emerge that may surprise us a little. We normally consider poetry and drama to be more accomplished and refined than straight-in prose storytelling. Yet about three thousand years before the advent of the modern novel, the most common and most preferred literary forms were poetry and drama. Poetry was first, and drama followed close on its heels.

It seems almost that if ancients such as Homer and Aeschylus had something to say, they diligently sought the finest (and most difficult) literary forms with which to say it. It appears that if they had something worth saying, they believed it worth saying well and with great care.”
― Leonard Mann, Green-Eyed Monsters and Good Samaritans: Literary Allusions in Everyday Language