None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than… — Edith Hamilton

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith HamiltonWriter · American · 1867 – 1963

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — Edith Hamilton
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. — Edith Hamilton
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. — Edith Hamilton