Aug 13, 2020
Thus, every well-invented poem is to be seen no otherwise than as a history from another possible world. And it is in this sense alone that the poet too is due the name poeton, the name of a Creator, because he makes things that do not exist for the senses. That is to say, he brings these things 'across' from the state of possibility into the state of reality, and imparts to them the semblance and the name of the real.
Breitinger, Critische Dichtkunst