Poetry as History. History as Catharsis. Catharsis as Poetry.
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it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Behavior is our presence in the here and now, how we make our world, then History must be our unshaped clay, the context of our labors. To act without minding History is to act without purpose.