“The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”
—Thomas Hardy, notebook entry, 19 April 1885
“The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”
—Thomas Hardy, notebook entry, 19 April 1885
Well, that’s one of the possible aims of writing, yes.
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