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Quotation from Ion by Plato
“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”
Ion, 534b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The heart of the magnet speech; the praise of the poet as holy also denies him command of his own meaning.
Citation: "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" — Plato, Ion, 534b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-ion-q2)
