Dialogue

 1   Ion| embraces the alternative of inspiration.~The Ion, like the other
 2   Ion|   in his highest moments of inspiration he has an eye to his own
 3   Ion|    as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving
 4   Ion|     suspended, who take the inspiration. For all good poets, epic
 5   Ion| that good poets by a divine inspiration interpret the things of
 6   Ion| others, some deriving their inspiration from Orpheus, others from
 7   Ion| what you say, but by divine inspiration and by possession; just
 8   Ion|    not by art but by divine inspiration.~ION: That is good, Socrates;
 9   Ion|   the two alternatives; and inspiration is by far the nobler.~SOCRATES:
10   Ion|    in your praises of Homer inspiration, and not art.~THE END~