Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Plato was a bore.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.