Edith Hamilton

• “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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  –Edith Hamilton

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• “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

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