Poetry and philosophy are always hostile to each other.

If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility. For only in such a state will …

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the…

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitivene…