On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:01:17 +0100, Knut Mork Skagen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Children at times can almost be considered an antithesis to literature; you
>either create one, or create the other.
"Those who are pregnant in the body only, betake themselves to women and
beget children -- this is the character of their love; their offspring, as
they hope, will preserve their memory and give them the blessedness and
immortality which they desire in the future. But souls which are pregnant --
for there certainly are men who are more creative in their souls than in
their bodies -- conceive that which is proper for the soul to conceive or
contain. And what are these conceptions? -- wisdom and virtue in general.
And such creators are poets and all artists who are deserving of the name
inventor."
Plato, Symposium, tr. Jowett
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