Inspiration Quote by Socrates

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— 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

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

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

“Poetry is both; enlightenment and wisdom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

— Plato

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Plato

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell