Filled Quote by Thomas More

I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.

— Dakin Matthews

“Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us such incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratfrod was unquestionably that man --…

— Bill Bryson

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold,…

— Victor Hugo

“In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom