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Plato Quotes about Poetry

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

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”

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

Plato
Men, Doors, Poetry

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”

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