James Hansen

“the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
― Aristotle, Poetics

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”
― Aristotle, Poetics

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”
― Aristotle, Poetics: with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets