Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|          rules, but is the gift of genius. The real art is always
 2 Phaedr|          termed in modern language genius, or inspiration, or imagination,
 3 Phaedr|           provide the speaker with genius; and the sort of attainments
 4 Phaedr| distasteful to Plato, who esteemed genius far above art, and was quite
 5 Phaedr|           if we exclude Homer, the genius of Hellas had ceased to
 6 Phaedr|             without merit, without genius and without character, is
 7 Phaedr|           of criticism on original genius. No one can doubt that such
 8 Phaedr|            out, and originality or genius appear to suffer a partial
 9 Phaedr|           those which the creative genius of a single man, such as
10 Phaedr|          to suppose no more men of genius to be produced, the great
11 Phaedr|    SOCRATES: I think that he has a genius which soars above the orations