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

— Socrates

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

— Plato

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

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 comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of…

— Maud Lindsay

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jacques Lacan

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

— Plato

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

— Ibrahim al-Koni

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Joseph Campbell