Characteristics of Outstanding High School Musicians

Abstract

For example, Plato wondered if madness of those possessed by the muses [was] not superior to a sane mind 2 then later said that sanity leaves when poetry enters a man's soul. 3 Schopenhauer wrote, It has often been remarked that there is a side at which genius and madness touch and even pass over into each other, and indeed poetical inspiration has been called a kind of madness. 4 Aristotle is reported to have said, There is no genius without a mixture of madness. 5 Plato uses the parable of the underground cave to express somewhat the same idea: