“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”

—  Horace , Ars Poetica

Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 99 (tr. John Conington)

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Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.

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