Alchemy Quote by Edith Hamilton

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not…

— Bertrand Russell

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

— Pattiann Rogers

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss…

— Christian Wiman