The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |            talked better about their poetry than they did themselves.
  2 Text |             by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius
  3 Text |           upon the strength of their poetry they believed themselves


Charmides
    Part
  4 PreS |            classical writers both in poetry or prose; it was (Greek).
  5 PreS |             Hardly in some flight of poetry do we ever endue any of
  6 PreS |           required as in translating poetry. The language, too, is of


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|             have often the beauty of poetry, but they have also the
  8 Intro|        natural objects or processes. Poetry and philosophy—these two,
  9 Intro|          civilization, harmonized by poetry, emphasized by literature,
 10 Intro|          into a language. Then arose poetry and literature. We can hardly
 11 Intro|            of speech and writing, of poetry and prose. We observe also
 12 Intro|             the sense, especially in poetry, in which beauty and expressiveness
 13 Intro|       printing.~Before the growth of poetry or the invention of writing,
 14 Intro|             of language; for ancient poetry is almost as free from tautology
 15 Intro|              literary excellence.~To poetry the form and polish of language
 16 Intro|              their life been hearing poetry the first introduction of
 17 Intro|               Henceforward prose and poetry formed each other. A comparatively
 18 Intro|            proverbs. We may trace in poetry how the simple succession


Critias
    Part
 19 Intro|            given, as in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason


Gorgias
    Part
 20 Intro|             practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply him with distinctions
 21 Intro|            and not upon improvement. Poetry in general is only a rhetorical
 22 Intro|            dialectic and rhetoric or poetry, are so many pairs of opposites,
 23 Intro|           side of human nature. That poetry is akin to rhetoric may
 24 Intro|          almost ridicule the idea of poetry admitting of a moral. The
 25 Intro|         still the proper material of poetry. The poet clothes them with
 26 Intro|            critic, for the spirit of poetry and of criticism are not
 27 Intro|              world around them. True poetry is the remembrance of youth,
 28 Intro|       faculty. The reconciliation of poetry, as of religion, with truth,
 29 Intro|           applied (Republic).~Modern poetry is often a sort of plaything,
 30 Intro|             not the higher spirit of poetry. He has no conception that
 31 Intro|            They are a substitute for poetry and mythology; and they
 32 Intro|       abstract to the concrete, from poetry to reality. Language is
 33 Intro|         opposing speech and writing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered
 34 Text |        choral art and of dithyrambic poetry?—are not they of the same
 35 Text |         harp-playing and dithyrambic poetry in general, what would you
 36 Text |            suppose that we strip all poetry of song and rhythm and metre,
 37 Text |       CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then poetry is a sort of rhetoric?~CALLICLES:


Ion
    Part
 38 Intro|             to judge of the bad. And poetry is a whole; and he who judges
 39 Intro|          whole; and he who judges of poetry by rules of art ought to
 40 Intro|              be able to judge of all poetry.’ This is confirmed by the
 41 Intro|         elements of a true theory of poetry are contained in the notion
 42 Intro|               or to the knowledge of poetry or of any other art as a
 43 Intro|       quarrel between philosophy and poetry, which in the Republic leads
 44 Text |              of all other poets; for poetry is a whole.~ION: Yes.~SOCRATES:


Laws
    Book
 45 3    |            good and bad in music and poetry; and instead of an aristocracy,
 46 7    |           learnt or heard, either in poetry or prose, this seemed to
 47 7    |              to find them, either in poetry or prose, or if he come
 48 7    |           shall we bring with us our poetry—what is your will about
 49 7    |              determined whether your poetry might be recited, and was
 50 12   |           individuals which occur in poetry and also in prose, whether


Lysis
    Part
 51 Text |              these errors in writing poetry. For I can hardly suppose
 52 Text |           who injures himself by his poetry.~Assuredly not, he said;


Meno
    Part
 53 Intro|         speech is seeking to unfold. Poetry has been converted into
 54 Intro|          with a view of showing that poetry and the mimetic arts are
 55 Intro|         philosophy, in mythology, in poetry, but we cannot argue a priori


Parmenides
    Part
 56 Intro|   transmutation; sometimes veiled in poetry and mythology, then again


Phaedo
    Part
 57 Intro|         which may be traced in Greek poetry or philosophy, and also
 58 Intro|        ancient or modern, nothing in poetry or history (with one exception),
 59 Text |         never before wrote a line of poetry, now that you are in prison


Phaedrus
    Part
 60 Intro|  purification by mysteries; thirdly, poetry or the inspiration of the
 61 Intro|            and which in the midst of poetry does not forget order, is
 62 Intro|           and answering, perhaps, to poetry; thirdly, of disinterested
 63 Intro|               is the subject, not of poetry or fiction, but of philosophy.~
 64 Intro|           another way to make use of poetry and mythology as a vehicle
 65 Intro|           any real progress? Why did poetry droop and languish? Why
 66 Intro|            simplicity or delicacy in poetry, the want of political freedom,
 67 Intro|          play of fancy which creates poetry; and where there is no true
 68 Intro|           and where there is no true poetry, neither can there be any
 69 Text |            of art—he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane
 70 Text |            serious, and that neither poetry nor prose, spoken or written,


Philebus
    Part
 71 Intro|       quarrel between philosophy and poetry in Plato’s own mind, or
 72 Intro|              created by religion, by poetry, by law, having their foundation
 73 Intro|              flowers of rhetoric and poetry have lost their freshness


Protagoras
    Part
 74 Text |               he said, that skill in poetry is the principal part of
 75 Text |          discussing to the domain of poetry; we will speak as before
 76 Text |          would be called my skill in poetry; or if you would rather,


The Republic
    Book
 77 2    |              whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric, or tragic,
 78 2    |              or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised
 79 3    |            Enough of the subjects of poetry: let us now speak of the
 80 3    |               that all mythology and poetry are a narration of events,
 81 3    |        imitation is dropped, and his poetry becomes simple narration.
 82 3    |              made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some
 83 3    |              several other styles of poetry. Do I take you with me? ~
 84 3    |              the two, comprehend all poetry, and every form of expression
 85 3    |              exhibit himself and his poetry, we will fall down and worship
 86 10   |           better than the rule about poetry. ~To what do you refer? ~
 87 10   |           the rejection of imitative poetry, which certainly ought not
 88 10   |              in fact to what we term poetry? ~Probably the same would
 89 10   |            the same would be true of poetry. ~Do not rely, I said, on
 90 10   |          accusation: the power which poetry has of harming even the
 91 10   |          every action-in all of them poetry feeds and waters the passions
 92 10   |              famous men are the only poetry which ought to be admitted
 93 10   |           reverted to the subject of poetry, let this our defence serve
 94 10   |       quarrel between philosophy and poetry; of which there are many
 95 10   |          defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets the permission
 96 10   |           mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight? ~Certainly,
 97 10   |             inspired by that love of poetry which the education of noble
 98 10   |        events we are well aware that poetry being such as we have described
 99 10   |              under the excitement of poetry, he neglect justice and


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
100 Text |        fashion of his tribe. For all poetry has by nature an enigmatical
101 Text |              moreover, the spirit of poetry happen to seize on a man


The Sophist
    Part
102 Intro|              back into cosmogony and poetry: the philosophy of Heracleitus,
103 Intro|   extinguished in him the feeling of poetry. He is the true countryman


The Statesman
    Part
104 Intro|              humour and the charm of poetry have departed, never to
105 Intro|             us: it clothes itself in poetry and art, and appeals to


The Symposium
    Part
106 Intro|              and ‘the old quarrel of poetry and philosophy’ has at least
107 Intro|      sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry, the playful and the serious,
108 Intro|           philosophy, borrowing from poetry, converted into an efficient
109 Intro|              in Agathon and Socrates poetry and philosophy blend together.
110 Intro| half-enthusiast. He is the critic of poetry also, who compares Homer
111 Text |         comes into my mind a line of poetry in which he is said to be
112 Text |             me as follows: ‘There is poetry, which, as you know, is
113 Text |              non-being into being is poetry or making, and the processes
114 Text |           music and metre, is termed poetry, and they who possess poetry
115 Text |         poetry, and they who possess poetry in this sense of the word


Theaetetus
    Part
116 Intro|            other words used in early poetry or in sacred writings to
117 Intro|              one class of persons as poetry has to another; but in later
118 Intro|              bring back a passage of poetry or a whole system of philosophy;
119 Intro|           the body. Both science and poetry are made up of associations
120 Text |            masters of either kind of poetry—Epicharmus, the prince of


Timaeus
    Part
121 Intro|            not wholly separated from poetry and mythology.~A greater
122 Intro|        associations of mythology and poetry have to be added, and the
123 Intro|             think, had received from poetry or language or unintelligent
124 Intro|       between them, or say, ‘This is poetry, this is philosophy’; for
125 Text |               like other poets, made poetry the business of his life,