Robert Fagles Quotes

• 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.

  Robert Fagles

  Hero, Ignorance, Men

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• The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

  Robert Fagles

  Heart, Tears, World

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• I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

  Robert Fagles

  Ambition, Generosity, Lines

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