I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong to ...the free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and g...ardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »