Michael Tippett Quotes

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

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

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.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

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

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.