Hard Quote by Edward Hirsch

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

— Alex St. Clair

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally…

— James Shapiro

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two…

— Bob Dylan

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

— William S. Burroughs

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don't think…

— Naseeruddin Shah