#hak

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dramatic #fiction #his #love #love stories

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#angst #character #characters #hamlet #iii

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#compassion #fool #happiness #most #naturally

I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#going #i #shaking

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#frightening #good #i #i think #music

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

#earth #going #honest #i #make

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it! ↗

— Jane Elliot

#black #black hat #fists #give #happy

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