Poetry Quote by Aristotle

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

— Aristotle

“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing…

— Aristotle

“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let…

— John Ciardi

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

— Aristotle

“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.”

— Danielle Ackley-McPhail

“It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.”

— Robert Mallet

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.”

— Franz Kafka

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to achieve a…

— the mag man

“Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.”

— John Updike