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Work: Poetics (and On Poets)


Humanities, Nonfiction

Aristotle – Poetics (ca 335 BCE)

The art of poetry belongs to the genius or the madman.

Humanities, Nonfiction

Aristotle – On Poets (fragments, ca 335 BCE?)

Folly is present in the wisest of souls, and intemperance in the most temperate.

Humanities, Nonfiction

Aristotle – Poetics (ca 335 BCE)

What would be the speaker’s function, if the element were apparent even without speech?

Humanities, Nonfiction

Aristotle – Poetics (ca 335 BCE)

It is probable that many things will happen even against probability.

       

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Ansel Adams Carl Sagan Charlotte Brontë Daniel Kahneman Douglas Adams Douglas R. Hofstadter E. B. White J.R.R. Tolkien John Dewey Leo Tolstoy Lewis Thomas Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

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