I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
