An Apology for Poetry (also called The Defence of Poesy) • Paragraph 9
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Finally, if any object that Poets instruct not so strictly as Philosophers, we answere, that the Poets vse a generall compendious perswasion, which toucheth the affections, and so worketh a more certaine and shorter way to the will then any long precepts of moral philosophy can do: for men are stirred sooner with examples then with definitions, and the imagination is the readiest guide to motion.