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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.