"Poetics" Quotes
Aristotle's "Poetics" is a seminal work on the theory of drama and poetry.
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Quotes
The plot is the soul of tragedy.
The best tragedy should be complex rather than simple.
The spectacle is the least artistic part of the tragedy.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history.
The pleasure in imitation is a natural instinct.
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.
The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen.
Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history.
Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is admirable and complete, and of a certain magnitude.
The plot is the source and soul of the tragedy.
