Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply him with distinctions
 2  Gorg|      and not upon improvement. Poetry in general is only a rhetorical
 3  Gorg|      dialectic and rhetoric or poetry, are so many pairs of opposites,
 4  Gorg|     side of human nature. That poetry is akin to rhetoric may
 5  Gorg|    almost ridicule the idea of poetry admitting of a moral. The
 6  Gorg|   still the proper material of poetry. The poet clothes them with
 7  Gorg|      critic, for the spirit of poetry and of criticism are not
 8  Gorg|        world around them. True poetry is the remembrance of youth,
 9  Gorg| faculty. The reconciliation of poetry, as of religion, with truth,
10  Gorg|     applied (Republic).~Modern poetry is often a sort of plaything,
11  Gorg|       not the higher spirit of poetry. He has no conception that
12  Gorg|      They are a substitute for poetry and mythology; and they
13  Gorg| abstract to the concrete, from poetry to reality. Language is
14  Gorg|   opposing speech and writing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered
15  Gorg|  choral art and of dithyrambic poetry?—are not they of the same
16  Gorg|   harp-playing and dithyrambic poetry in general, what would you
17  Gorg|      suppose that we strip all poetry of song and rhythm and metre,
18  Gorg| CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then poetry is a sort of rhetoric?~CALLICLES: