Plato Quotes

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  

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• There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

  

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• There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

  

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• The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

  

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• The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

  

  Plato
  • Gods
  • Poets
  • Bondage