Inspiration Quote by Plato

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

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

— Plato

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

“Wisdom is the poetry of the wise, and poetry is the wisdom of the poets.”

— Ibrahim al-Koni

“Poetry is both; enlightenment and wisdom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

— Jacques Lacan

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the…

— Socrates

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche