Plato Quotes About Poetry

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  • Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

  • It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

  • They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

  • for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

    Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”
  • For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

    Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen
  • The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

    Plato (1961). “Plato, with an English translation”
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Plato

  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher