Richard McCabe Quotes

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

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

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Literature is the history of the soul.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Nothing human is foreign to us

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.