Thomas Hardy Quote

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

notebook entry for 19 April 1885, in Florence Hardy The Early Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–91 (1928) ch. 13

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.