Famous quotes containing the word tragic:
“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and deathsubjects as ancient as humanitythese are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”
—Louise Bogan (18971970)
“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“Yea, this mans brow, like to a title-leaf,
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)