Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

I like poems that are complex.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

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

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.