the Greeks had a lot of science as well as great storytellers, poets, and playwrights. For example, the Odyssey & Iliad, which are Greek mythological (ie figurative) poems. Meanwhile, Arabic and Chinese, which were used to document plenty of scientific discoveries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_China) also have a rich poetic history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_poetry & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese_poetry).