#hak

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

#available #creative #dante #dreaming #every

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older. ↗

— JoJo

#actually #been #boy #did #experience

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#am #core #every #every time #go

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. ↗

— Assata Shakur

#education #heroes #history #knowledge #education

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#crave #i #just #know #love

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#shakespeare #william-shakespeare #age

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die. ↗

— Marc Norman

#die #fade #shakespeare-in-love #william-shakespeare #age

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.” She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’” “Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#frost-burned #humor #jesse-hauptman #mercy-thompson #samuel-cornick