Quote by Edith Hamilton
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less t

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

Other quotes by Edith Hamilton

A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

Category:
Translation
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Poetry

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John Cage

Category:
Poetry

The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
alone

Hear your heart. Heart your health. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Health

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. – Madeleine Albright

Category:
Money

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Art