"The passages of Shakespeare that we most..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.”
“Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.”
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”
More on Literature
“Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.”
“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”
“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
More on Shakespeare
“Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.”
“Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.”
“If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.”