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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.163, Ravenio Books
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.