“When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.”

—  Denis Diderot

On Dramatic Poetry (1758)

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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