"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torchbearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the lawgivers and the saviors, the light-bringers, wayshowers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark."
-Plato
