Poetic Justice

Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.

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Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or justice:

    “That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)