With a view to poetry, an impossible thing that is believable is preferable to an unbelievable thing that is possible. [πρός τε γὰρ τὴν ποίησιν αἱρετώτερον πιθανὸν ἀδύνατον ἢ ἀπίθανον καὶ δυνατόν.] Original Greek. Alternate translations: "The poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities." [tr. Butcher (1895)] "A likely…