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'It is his very self that his poems give, and the sharpest jealousy of his name and fame is enkindled by them. Not to find him there, his passion, endurance, faith, rapture, despair, is merely a confession of want in ourselves. That's not sane, you know it's the intoxication of the Corybant! It isn't the man himself we want to fix our eyes upon.
Says the gay and licentious Alcibiades, in Plato's "Banquet" concerning Socrates: "When I heard Pericles or any other great orator, I was entertained and delighted, and I felt that he had spoken well. But no mortal speech has ever excited in my mind such emotions as are excited by this magician. Whenever I hear him, I am, as it were, charmed and fettered. My heart leaps like an inspired Corybant.
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