Poets, storytellers, filmmakers... they all shape public opinion and help rally the people for the cause. I assume that's what he meant.

Who actually wrote or said it? JFK has ghost writers for everything.

> Who actually wrote or said it? JFK has ghost
> writers for everything.

Exactly. First thought: Where's Sorenson while all this is going on?

Besides, Amy, ever'buddy knows that World War Two was one in the PT boats.

Won. Sorry. Distrac

Could Stalin have been a poet instead of a tyrant?
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[edited] Joseph Stalin was a tyrant responsible for the deaths of millions. But he could have chosen the path of poetry. Stalin won renown writing critically acclaimed romantic poetry before he rose to power.

And what if Adolph Hitler had remained a humble artist?
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We should avoid politicians with romantic, utopian dreams. An artist wants to transcend the ordinary world, by crushing the people if necessary.

Stalin's poetry shows in his nom de despot. He was born Iosif Vissarionavich Djugashvili. He adopted the more poetic "Steel", Stalin in Russian.