A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end. (1450b26)

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. (1449b24)

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (1451b6)

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and …

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut s…