Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) “I’d like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God’s a workman. I don’t think there’s anything better than a workman.”
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) “Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) “Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it…
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) “Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria.” (There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time In misery.) Divina Commedia, Inferno, V “Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona, mi prese del…
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) “We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.” Poems
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) “Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.” The Devil’s Disciple, act 3
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s…
Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) “Quisiera esta tarde divina de octubre pasear por la orilla lejana del mar; que la arena de oro, y las aguas verdes, y los cielos puros me vieran pasar. Ser alta, soberbia, perfecta, quisiera, como una romana, para…
Sappho (7th-6th century BC) “Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, Atop on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow, Forget it not, nay; but got it not, for none could get it till now.” (Translated by…
Luis Rosales (1910-1992) “Como el náufrago metódico que contase las olas que le quedan para morir; y las contase, y las volviese a contar, para evitar errores, hasta la última hasta aquella que tiene la estatura de un niño y le…