None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

只有诗人才能写悲剧。因为悲剧只不过是痛苦被诗歌的炼金术转化为狂喜。

-- Edith Hamilton 依迪丝·汉密尔顿