#aristotle quotes

“Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.”

-“Poetics” by Aristotle (chapter IV, The Origin and Development of Poetry)

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“ ‘Aristotle says in the Poetics,’ said Henry, ‘that objects such as corpses painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art.’ ”

-“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt (page 41)