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Ars poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus -Versuri-
Maxima pars uatum, pater et iuuenes patre digni, decipimur specie
recti. Breuis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem leuia nerui
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae; qui uariare cupit rem
prodigialiter unam, delphinum siluis adpingit, fluctibus aprum.
Most of us poets, o father and sons who are worthy of that father,
deceive ourselves by an illusion of correct procedure. I work at
achieving brevity; instead I become obscure. Striving for
smoothness, vigor and spirit escape me. One poet, promising the
sublime, delivers pomposity. Another creeps along the ground, overly
cautious and too much frightened of the gale. Whoever wishes to
vary a single subject in some strange and wonderful way, paints a
dolphin into a forest and a boar onto the high seas. The avoidance of
blame leads to error if there is an absence of art.
189-92
Neue minor neu sit quinto productior actu fabula, quae posci uolt et
spectanda reponi; nec deus intersit, nisi dignus uindice nodus
inciderit; nec quarta loqui persona laboret.
A play should not be shorter or longer than five acts if, once it has
been seen, it wishes to remain in demand and be brought back for
return engagements. Nor should any god intervene unless a knot
show up that is worthy of such a liberator; nor should a fourth actor
strive to speak.
333-334
Aut prodesse uolunt aut delectare poetae aut simul et iucunda et
idonea dicere uitae.
Poets wish to either benefit or delight us, or, at one and the same
time, to speak words that are both pleasing and useful for our lives.