Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
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"Poetry and Music" from Anarchism Is not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)Laura Riding
Over the past two centuries, there has hardly been an author, certainly in the English-speaking world, who has commanded greater reverence than Shakespeare. There is only one text in the English language that carries comparable prestige to the works of Shakespeare: the Bible, in particular in its most renowned version, the King James Bible, otherwise known as the Authorized Version, of 1611. In view of the persistent juxtaposition of these two Anglophone cultural icons it is hardly surprising that they also feature together in a number of fictions of Shakespeare's life, in the form of the fantasy of the Bard as co-translator of the Authorized Version. The originator of this motif seems to have been Rudyard Kipling. In his story "Proofs of Holy Writ," Kipling imagines Shakespeare in the process of revising parts of the Authorized Version with the help of Ben Jonson.
William Shakespeare
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
Simone Weil
Benito Mussolini is a Magnificent Beast. No apology is needed for an expression which the Duce himself would have found correct, and which fits like a glove a boxing glove.
Benito Mussolini
For Novalis the poetic in the world was the only genuine reality, even as the poetic spirit in man was the proof of mans divine origin. All of his poetry is concerned ultimately with revealing and celebrating the poetic spirit.
Novalis
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
Yukio Mishima
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