Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
I have drunk,and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)
For where Love reigns, disturbing JealousyDoth call himself Affection's sentinel;Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!
Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of scribbling fingers. With all this buzz of criticis...
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other pe...
Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.
I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.
CARDINAL WOLSEYSo farewell to the little good you bear me.Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is the state of man: to-day he puts forthThe tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,An...
They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.
Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish...
Nay, Nay! Try thou not.But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try.
Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life...
As with modern totalitarian regimes, people developed techniques for speaking in code, addressing at one or more removes what most mattered to them. But it was not only caution that motivated Shakespe...
Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V
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