The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. Robert Fagles More Quotes by Robert Fagles More Quotes From Robert Fagles 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 ignoranceheromen I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines. Robert Fagles generositylinesambition
