"Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?"
- William Shakespeare
"Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings."
- Carew Papritz
"Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken mysel..."
- John Fowles
"I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words."
"To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!"
"The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world."
- Helen Gardner
"When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows"
"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."
"Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death,The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were ’t good?I think she stirs again—No. What’s best to do?If she come in, s..."
"willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing"
- Frank O'Hara