We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
- Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1
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If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad. - John Benbow in Manuscript and Proof, cited in The Making of a Name.
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We think what’s happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture. - Neuroscientist Matthew Walker in a NYTimes article.
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. - Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, from a translation by S. Mitchell
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[…] with just-in-time-delivery and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately being sovereign, everything is of the moment, and the noise is deafening. - Ken Alexander, in the July/August 2007 editorial of The Walrus
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[…] a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. - Oshima in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
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It brought tears to my eyes when I read this for the first time, long ago when I was 17. But it’s still wonderful.
It’s one of my fav lines of literature. Billy Shakespeare (and/or his wife, depending on what theories you believe) is a tough act to follow…
There are those fearless individuals throughout history who seemed able to point to what lies out there in the fog - some truth about what it is to be alive and to be human. Socrates was one, Will Shakespeare was another. Thank you all. And may there be many more to come . . .
These are beautifully crafted words. I can only hope I will convey their message as eloquently as they have been wrote. I am playing Prospero in a production of The Tempest and the experience has given me both insight into myself as an actress and as a human being. We all share so much in our experience, and I think people lose sight of that sometimes.