For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never ...

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.

Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws (ed. 1938)

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...

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...

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...

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...