| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54539 |
| QUOTATION: | So I soon made up my mind about the poets too: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Socrates (469–399 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Quoted in Plato, Apology, sect. 21. |
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