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 Quotes
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
 American Writer Pain

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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Conflict
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Mind
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Belief
A people's 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 Quotes

A people's 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

 American Writer
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

Edith Hamilton

 Beauty Civilization
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 Quotes

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

 Beauty Translation
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

Edith Hamilton

 
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

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

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Facts
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Freedom
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. - Edith Hamilton Quotes

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

 American Writer Chaos
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