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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
Pain, Writing, Tragedy
Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.