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• No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
• Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem…
• Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution…
• In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
• Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
• It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The…
• What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what…
• First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never…
• But I never listen to music while I'm writing.
• First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,…
• The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

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