| But they never questioned the very existence of the gods, and Socrates regularly followed the dictates of his daimon, a personal divine guide. |
| Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced. |
| Like the daimon of Socrates who indicates only what not to do, we too know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. |
| The daimon in Goethe has more progenitors than the one in a savage. |
| Thanks to the daimon who kept him from swallowing Reformist preaching in his youth, future readers will never view him as a convert. |
| He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace. |
