“That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
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