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The poets, as was natural, were the first to
give an impulse to style; for words are imitations, and the voice also, which of
all our parts is best adapted for imitation, was ready to hand; thus the arts of
the rhapsodists, actors, and others, were fashioned.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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