"A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]"

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the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.

— Isak Dinesen