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:

    “I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)