The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness und…

Thomas Hardy
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. ✨ Thomas Hardy (1998). Hardy: Selected Poems, p.197, Penguin
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