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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...more

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by...more

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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a ...more