Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.