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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

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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

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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

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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