Quotes by Hamilton, Edith

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. >>

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins o >>

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. >>

Quotations about Tragedies

There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. >>

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered >>

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that fe >>

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

Hamilton, Edith