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 1 2 |           can we suppose that the poets are to be allowed to teach
 2 2 |       been the destruction of the poets; for they are now in the
 3 2 |          this is the way in which poets generally compose in States
 4 2 |          follows: you compel your poets to say that the good man,
 5 2 |           persuade or compel your poets to utter with suitable accompaniments
 6 2 |           I would try to make the poets and all the citizens speak
 7 2 |          representative. Will not poets and spectators and actors
 8 2 |           to discern, because the poets are artists very inferior
 9 2 |           were all one. But human poets are fond of introducing
10 2 |       this confusion, and yet the poets go on and make still further
11 2 |     common people, or even of the poets themselves. For the poet
12 3 |          much of him, for foreign poets are very little read among
13 3 |      words of God and nature; for poets are a divine race and often
14 3 |        then, as time went on, the poets themselves introduced the
15 4 | legislator ought not to allow the poets to do what they liked? For
16 4 |           to him on behalf of the poets?~Cleinias. What answer shall
17 6 |       them? And the wisest of our poets, speaking of Zeus, says:~
18 7 |         be to the effect that our poets, understanding prayers to
19 7 |         Did we not imply that the poets are not always quite capable
20 7 |         taking into their counsel poets and musicians, and making
21 7 |         that we have a great many poets writing in hexameter, trimeter,
22 7 |         as to get by heart entire poets; while others select choice
23 7 |           that every one of these poets has said many things well
24 7 |        And, if any of the serious poets, as they are termed, who
25 7 |         to our ability are tragic poets, and our tragedy is the
26 7 |         truth of tragedy. You are poets and we are poets, both makers
27 7 |          You are poets and we are poets, both makers of the same
28 8 |          is the opposite. And let poets celebrate the victors—not
29 9 |          writings of those others—poets and the like, who either
30 9 |      Homer and Tyrtaeus and other poets to lay down evil precepts
31 10|        esteemed to be the best of poets, and orators, and prophets,
32 10|          the sayings of wise men, poets and prose writers, which
33 10|        and are celebrated both by poets and prose writers—these
34 12|          let no one be deluded by poets or mythologers into a mistaken
35 12|     better informed than all the, poets put together. Happy is he
36 12|           and perplexity, and the poets took occasion to be abusive—