You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way. - Plato

The whole business of the kingly weaving is comprised in this and this alone: in never allowing the self-restrained characters to be separated from the courageous, but in weaving them together by common beliefs and honors and dishonors and opinions and interchanges of pledges, thus making of them a smooth and, as we say, well-woven fabric, and then entrusting to them in common forever the offices of the state.

Socrates: ...Can you point out any compelling rhetorical reason why he should have put his arguments together in the order that he has?
Phaedrus: You do me too much honour if you suppose that I am capable of divining his motives so exactly.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.