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to the enchantment of the poets.
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We need to deprive, again, the poets, the song makers,
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the lyricists, the musicians, the mythmakers,
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the storytellers, all of them, the power to enchant us.
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And in place of the pedagogical power of poetry,
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Socrates proposes to install philosophy in its place.
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As a result,
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the poets will have to be expelled from this city.
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Imagine that.
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Sophocles will be expelled from the just city
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that Socrates wants to create.
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This always raises the question