Robert Fagles Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.”
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“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”
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“The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
-- Robert Fagles
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