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El conciso ensayo de Goethe supera FÁCIL la basura repetitiva que ha escrito Carolina Delgado. Se agradece su inclusión. Me restauró la fé en la humanidad.

Socrates: '(...) But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence (...)
Ion: 'There is a great difference, Socrates, between the two alternatives; and inspiration is by far the nobler.'
Socrates: 'Then, Ion, I shall assume the nobler alternative; and attribute to you in your praises of Homer inspiration, and not art.'

Socrates: '(...) And you, Ion, when the name of Homer is mentioned have plenty to say, and have nothing to say of others. You ask, 'Why is this?' The answer is that you praise Homer not by art but by divine inspiration.'

Socrates: '(...) Are you not carried out of yourself, and does not your soul in an ecstasy seem to be among the persons or places of which you are speaking, whether they are in Ithaca or in Troy, or whatever may be the scene of the poem?' (...)
Ion: '(...) I must frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands on end and my heart throbs.'

Socrates: '(...) For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and now allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of a man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed. Was not this the lesson which the God intended to teach when by the mouth of the worst of poets he sang the best of songs? (...)'