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Stephen Greenblatt Quotes

Poems are difficult to silence Picture Quote #1

But I never listen to music while I’m writing Picture Quote #1

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove. I love James Picture Quote #1

[People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive Picture Quote #1

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man Picture Quote #1

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off Picture Quote #1

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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish Picture Quote #1

It is not that Shakespeare’s art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing Picture Quote #1

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It’s astonishing. It pours out of him Picture Quote #1

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man Picture Quote #1

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig Picture Quote #1

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one’s psychic life Picture Quote #1

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The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone Picture Quote #1

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion Picture Quote #1

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered Picture Quote #1

$I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about Picture Quote #1$

I’ve been at this for 40 years. and, as an academic, I’ve been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough Picture Quote #1

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller Picture Quote #1

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What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place Picture Quote #1

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing Picture Quote #1

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Poems are difficult to silence (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) But I never listen to music while I’m writing (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove. I love James. (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) [People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive. (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) It is not that Shakespeare’s art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It’s astonishing. It pours out of him (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one’s psychic life (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) I’ve been at this for 40 years. and, as an academic, I’ve been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes) I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing (Stephen Greenblatt Quotes)