Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) New York: Grove Press, 1961, p. 313
“The poet's job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of thing that always does take place. He gives you the typical, recurring, or what Aristotle calls universal event.”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
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