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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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