John Clare Quotes

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.