01-23-2015, 05:09 PM
I found this quote from Plato, which I understand to have been meant as a derision:
"[A]ll good poets . . . compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. . . [T]he lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed . . . . [The composer] 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 . . . .
"[T]hey do not speak . . . by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them . . . ."
"[A]ll good poets . . . compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. . . [T]he lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed . . . . [The composer] 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 . . . .
"[T]hey do not speak . . . by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them . . . ."
A yak is normal.