 For 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 senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his...  The Literature of Ecstasy - Pagina 22di Albert Mordell - 1921Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 832 pagine
...a poem. " The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him \mtil lie has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the...powerless and is unable to utter his oracles." The final dictum of the Ion is, " inspiration, not art," ttiiov xa\ fit) r(\vtKui: It is curious to find... | |
 | Plato - 1871 - 744 pagine
...Muses ; thither, like the bees, they wing their way. And this is true. /For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in...he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles^ Many are the noble words in which poets speak of actions like your own words about Homer ; but they... | |
 | Plato - 1873 - 698 pagine
...Muses ; thither, like the bees, they wing their way. And this is trne. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is ont of hi* senses, and the mind is no longer in him : when, he has not attained to this state, he is... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1874 - 446 pagine
...Muses ; thither, like the bees, they wing their way. And this is true. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in...he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. Many are the noble words in which poets speak of actions like your own words about Homer ; but they... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 662 pagine
...there is no invention in him until_-he_has- been inspired and is nnt. nf h« senses^.and the .naiadis no longer in him: when he has not attained to this...he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. Many are the noble words in which poets speak of actions like your own words about Homer ; but they... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 700 pagine
...Muses ; thither, like the bees, they wing their way. And this is true. For 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 hi» senses, and the mind is no longer in him : when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless... | |
 | 1878 - 520 pagine
...not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed. . . . For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired. . . . When he has not attained to this state he is powerless, and unable to utter his oracles. Many... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pagine
...Muses : thither, like the bees, they wing their way ; and this is true. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has lieen inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him : when he has not attained... | |
 | 1886 - 484 pagine
...Homer, is not an art, but an inspiration : there is a divinity moving in you." Again, the poet is " a holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired .... For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine." Professor Jowett's comment inferentially... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - 218 pagine
...the Muses; thither, like the bees, they wing their way. And this is true. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in...out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him. . . . For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us, and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful... | |
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