Augustus Quote by John Green

“I wonder if everybody could be remembered. Life, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would…

— John Green

“But we’re disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet…

— John Green

“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.…

— James Shapiro

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.”

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more. No fanfare,…

— Dustin Hoffman

“As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“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

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for…

— Rosie Thomas