Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
More Quotes from Edith Hamilton:
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.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
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
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
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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