On Poetry and Music Quotes

“Homer, more than any other, has taught the rest of us the art of framing lies in the right way.”
― Aristotle, On Poetry and Music

“If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.”
― Aristotle, On Poetry and Music