Graves Quote by Robert Browning

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

— John Clare

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

— John Clare

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…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were…

— William Wordsworth

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

— Roger Rees

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— H. C. Bunner

“No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.”

— Philip Pullman

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

— LaTanya Richardson