'Tragedy is Dionysian impulse discharging itself in Apollonian imagery'

'Each dimension will then play into the other, as dream-world and intoxication merge and begin to speak each other’s language, beauty or the Apollonian rescuing the Dionysian from pure amorphousness, and the Dionysian redeeming the Apollonian from the dead-end of sheer vacuous form. Tragedy is Dionysian impulse discharging itself in Apollonian imagery'.

Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton