When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
D.H. LawrenceTags: shakespeare literature language
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
Tags: shakespeare romeo-and-juliet
The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
Virginia WoolfTags: life shakespeare
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar WildeTags: love poetry shakespeare dorian-gray
You can't just skip the boring parts."
"Of course I can skip the boring parts."
"How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?"
"I can tell."
"Then you can't say you've read the whole play."
"I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark."
"Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.
Tags: life reading shakespeare philosophy hamlet
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Tags: shakespeare theatre plays titus-andronicus
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William ShakespeareTags: shakespeare hope wings flies swift swallows
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
Roger ZelaznyTags: humor shakespeare irony
The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.
Peter PorterTags: poetry shakespeare footnotes
One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.
Walter KaufmannTags: shakespeare inspiration religion atheism old-testament
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