Body Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done…

— James Baldwin

“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)”

— Anonymous

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread…

— Jane Austen

“...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love…

— Kate Fox

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to murder at…

— Eloisa James

“In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with…

— Jim Harrison

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all,…

— Faraaz Kazi

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

— Eddie the Eagle