Books Quote by Thomas C Foster

“I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox

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 great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will…

— Thom Gunn

“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.”

— Samuel Johnson

“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going…

— Jean Webster

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde