“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The poet should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
