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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. — Vanessa Redgrave
- Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. — Vanessa Redgrave
- The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. — Vanessa Redgrave