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

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Author:Aristotle

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

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Book:The poetics

Source: The poetics

“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

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Book:Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

Source: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

“Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is devil's wine.”

Art Philosophy History Devil Wine Poetry Is

Author:Saint Augustine