literature Quotes

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Homer has taught all other poets the skill of telling lies well.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss."