The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.
God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls. ' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.
Why does a tragedy like 911 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.