柏拉图讨论灵感的著作主要是《伊安篇》。《伊安篇》里的对话主人公之一伊安是一个以诵诗为职业的说书人。苏格拉底追问他诵诗和做诗是否都要凭一种专门技艺知识,反复讨论的结论是无论是伊安本人或是荷马,尽管歌咏战争,却没有军事方面的专门知识,至于诗歌本身是怎样一种专门技艺,凭借什么知识,伊安始终说不出。并且,尽管当时的智者派诡辩家们鼓吹一套做诗的技艺,但实际情况证明学会了这套技艺,也不一定就能做诗。于是,柏拉图断定文艺创作并不凭借专门的技艺知识,而唯一可凭的是灵感。诗人要创作,技艺知识是没有用处的,唯一的动力是灵感。灵感是来自于理式世界的,是绝对真实可靠的。谁能认识到理式世界即体悟到神的世界,谁就能获得创作的原动力得到灵感写出最真最善最美的诗来。所以,自此柏拉图就迈开了在诗歌的源泉、创作诸方面走向唯心主义泥潭的第一步,揭开 Plato’s inspirational writing is mainly “Ian chapter.” Ian, one of the protagonists in the dialogue in Ian, is a storyteller who recited poems professionally. Socrates asked him whether he recited poetry and poetry with a specialized knowledge of art. The result of repeated discussions concluded that neither Ian nor Homer, despite singing the war, had the military expertise without the poetry itself What is a kind of special skills, with any knowledge, Ian could not tell. And although the sophisticates and sophists at the time preached a poetic skill, the fact proved that they learned this art and did not necessarily make poems. As a result, Plato concluded that literary and artistic creation does not rely on specialized technical knowledge, but the only thing that is inspired. Poets to create, knowledge of art is useless, the only motivation is inspiration. Inspiration comes from the rational world, is absolutely true and reliable. Who can realize that the rational world, that is, the realization of God’s world, can get the motivation for creation and get inspired to write the most beautiful and most beautiful poems. Therefore, Plato thus took the first step in the quagmire of idealism in the source and creation of poetry