Poetic Philosophers

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Besides the standards of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and the early Greeks + Rennaisance Humanists, who are philosophers that put the poesy in their work as well?

I nominate as severely under-read, George Santayana

"THE stars lie above all countries alike, but the atmosphere
that intervenes is denser in one place than in another ;
and even where it is purest, if once its atoms catch the
sunlight, it cuts off the prospect beyond. In some climates
the veil of earthly weather is so thick and blotted that
even the plodder with his eyes on the ground finds its
density inconvenient, and misses his way home. The
advantage of having eyes is neutralized at such moments,
and it would be better to have retained the power of going
on all fours and being guided by scent. In fact human
beings everywhere are like marine animals and live in a
congenial watery medium, which like themselves is an
emanation of mother earth ; and they are content for the
most part to glide through it horizontally at their native
level. They ignore the third, the vertical dimension ; or
if they ever get some inkling of empty heights or rigid
depths where they could not breathe, they dismiss that
speculative thought with a shudder, and continue to dart
about in their familiar aquarium, immersed in an opaque
fluid that cools their passions, protects their intellect
from mental dispersion, keeps them from idle gazing, and
screens them from impertinent observation by those who
have no business in the premises."