Tao Te Ching

“A poet who may have been a beggar and a ballad-monger, who may have been unable to read and write, and was described by tradition as blind, composed a poem about the Greeks going to war with this town to recover the most beautiful woman in the world... that the most beautiful poem in the world was written by somebody who knew of nothing larger than such little towns is a historical fact.”

— G. K. Chesterton 1874 – 1936 CE
from The Everlasting Man (1925)​