Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Able
Beside
Reason
Inspired
Thing
Poet
Never
Poetry
Holy
Longer
Light
Winged
Become
Compose

More quotes by Plato

Image
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
Plato
Image
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
Plato
Image
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Plato
Image
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
Plato
Image
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
Plato
Image
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Plato
Image
The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.
Plato
Image
Music is a defining element of character.
Plato
Image
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Plato
Image
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
Plato
Image
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato
Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
Image
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
Plato
Image
We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
Plato
Image
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
Image
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Image
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
Plato
Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich these are at war with one another.
Plato
Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
Plato
Image
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato