Poetics (Penguin Classics S.)

Copying the visible behavior that is the counterpart of an observed action is unlikely to reproduce the action unless it is a mimeomorphic action, because in the case of polimorphic actions, the right behavioral instantiation will change with context. Here it will be concluded that, for now and the foreseeable future, polimorphic actions-and only p

question and answer, the root of all structure, is inherent in the crisis and climax of the act.

But if a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.