Yeah, but, uh, the proposal was to banish poetry from the Republic. And Socrates, ever quoting this and that, ever so ironically, had rather mixed feelings about poetry and its corruptive or corrosive properties too. Now, I don’t know much about history, as says Paul Simon…in relation to…
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Yeah, but, uh, the proposal was to banish poetry from the Republic. And Socrates, ever quoting this and that, ever so ironically, had rather mixed feelings about poetry and its corruptive or corrosive properties too. Now, I don’t know much about history, as says Paul Simon…in relation to…
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I would say they were afraid of the power of poetry, as Plato said”the truth it holds”. That’s why I loved the quote 🙂
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Right on. 😉
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I’m a huge fan of Plato, about to read his “on poetics”
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