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Quotation from Ion by Plato
“If you were able to speak of him by rules of art, you would have been able to speak of all other poets; for poetry is a whole”
Ion, 532c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates explains why Ion's skill with Homer alone shows that he lacks an art: a true art covers its whole subject.
Citation: "If you were able to speak of him by rules of art, you would have been able to speak of all other poets; for poetry is a whole" — Plato, Ion, 532c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-ion-q1)
