Plato Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

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

  Plato

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Plato

  Men, Doors, Poetry

• The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

  Plato

  Art, Poetry, Kind

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

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

  Plato

  Wisdom, Father, Poetry

• 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

  Light, Poetry, Able

  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

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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