But although imagination is, in this way, informed by a sense of reality, it need not represent the world asit is. On the contrary the imagination idealises, ennobles, embellishes and re-presents the world. And it does so in a believable way, since(paradoxically) we can suspend belief only in the presence of the believable. Aristotle made the point in the Poetry, Poetry, he argued, does not tolerate the improbable, but it can tolerate the