16 William Shakespeare Quotes on Literature

William Shakespeare quotes on literature

1. All's Well That Ends Well

5. Coriolanus

16. Measure for Measure

17. The Merchant of Venice

21. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

26. The Taming of the Shrew

29. Troilus and Cressida

32. The Winter's Tale

39. But Shakespear's Magick could not copy'd be, Within that Circle none durst walk but he.

42. He was not of an age, but for all time!

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43. I never quite despair and I read Shakspeare - indeed I shall I think never read any other Book much [...] I am very near Agreeing with Hazlit that Shakspeare is enough for us.

44. He has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.

46. Shakespeare led a life of Allegory; his works are the comments on it.

47. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's; Therefore on him no speech!

49. The verbal poetic texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays.

51. Last Words in Shakespeare