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Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance!
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen to look like oxen, and each would make the gods’ bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.
—Xenophanes (b. c. 570 B. C.)
Tip Topiary Shapes For Your Hedges ... Hedges and topiaries go further back than the English. The early Greek society is credited with starting the trend of topiary, the Romans soon adopted the new trend, and symmetrical designs were soon found among the homes of the early Romans...