Desire Quote by Stephen Greenblatt Download Open image ““I began with the desire to speak with the dead.”” — Stephen Greenblatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Education Historians History Knowledge Shakespeare
“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“At the same time, it seemed certain to me that someday I would really want to hear his voice and wouldn't be able to,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Everyone wishes they could speak again to those who've gone to the land of the dead.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.” — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2” — Bruce M. Hood Copy Share Image
“Eve is a figure for the soul that each human should love. The commandment to be fruitful and multiply did not originally refer to… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“The quintessential emblem of religion and the clearest manifestation of the perversity that lies at its core is the sacrifice of a… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“you needed only to comprehend that there is a hidden natural explanation for everything that alarms or eludes you. That explanation will inevitably lead… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin America in… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image