“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“Since to open out
And mourn out grief, where it is possible
To draw a tear from the audience, is a work
That pays its own price well.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 637–639 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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Ὡς τἀποκλαῦσαι κἀποδύρασθαι τύχας ἐνταῦθ', ὅπου μέλλοι τις οἴσεσθαι δάκρυ πρὸς τῶν κλυόντων, ἀξίαν τριβὴν ἔχει.
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