Facts Quote by Aristotle

“The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible…

— Aristotle

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those…

— Aristotle

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

— A. L. Rowse

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

— Plato

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

— John Cusack

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky