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Poetics
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Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.
Muthos, Ethos, Dianoia, Lexis, Melopoiia, Opsis
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“There's nothing I'd violate certain principles for." "But how do you know when you're violating them? You have to guess at things just like most people do. You have to apportion the values when you look back. You finish up the portrait then—paint in the details and shadows.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later. For instance, the beautiful word, the colored and glittering word, and the beautiful simile belong in prose now. To get attention poetry has got to strain for the unusual word, the harsh, earthy word that's never been beautiful before.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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