Dialogue

 1   Ion|         recitations of any other poet. ‘And yet, surely, he who
 2   Ion|        mysterious power from the poet; and the poet, in like manner,
 3   Ion|     power from the poet; and the poet, in like manner, is inspired
 4   Ion|       immediately follows is the poet himself; from him are suspended
 5   Ion|        all is the spectator. The poet is the inspired interpreter
 6   Ion|      inspired interpreter of the poet, and for a similar reason
 7   Ion| contained in the notion that the poet is inspired. Genius is often
 8   Ion|       mind when he describes the poet as inspired, or when, as
 9   Ion|    understand the meaning of the poet. For the rhapsode ought
10   Ion|        interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how
11   Ion|          one speaks of any other poet; but when Homer is mentioned,
12   Ion|        And the soul of the lyric poet does the same, as they themselves
13   Ion|        And this is true. For the poet is a light and winged and
14   Ion|          for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
15   Ion|      intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of
16   Ion|         from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom
17   Ion|     repeats the words of another poet you go to sleep, and know