Dialogue

 1   Ion|        last brought home to the mind of Ion, who asks how this
 2   Ion|        The concentration of the mind on a single object, or on
 3   Ion|     been passing before Plato’s mind when he describes the poet
 4   Ion|       is already working in the mind of Plato, and is embodied
 5   Ion|  dramatic performances over the mind of the performer. His allusion
 6   Ion| rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers,
 7   Ion|    dance are not in their right mind, so the lyric poets are
 8   Ion|    poets are not in their right mind when they are composing
 9   Ion|         they are in their right mind. And the soul of the lyric
10   Ion|      out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when
11   Ion|    Priam,—are you in your right mind? Are you not carried out
12   Ion|         him;—is he in his right mind or is he not?~ION: No indeed,
13   Ion|          he is not in his right mind.~SOCRATES: And are you aware