Word of the Day for Wednesday September 14, 2005
afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun:
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.
Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine
afflatus in poetry?
--Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man' (Ronsdale)," [1]Toronto
Star, November 21, 1999
Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the
exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual
afflatus.
--John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets
The miraculous spring that nourished Homer's afflatus seems
out of reach of today's writers, whose desperate yearning
for inspiration only indicates the coming of an age of
"exhaustion."
--Benzi Zhang, "Paradox of origin(ality)," Studies in Short
Fiction, March 22, 1995 |
