Shakespeare Quotes

“All the same, logocide would not entirely shut down Shakespeare's theatre... When Virginia Woolf saw 'Twelfth Night' at the Old Vic in 1933, she warmed to its yearning poetry and witty prose, even though she believed that Shakespeare 'wrote too quick for the human tongue' and should be read, not listened to. Yet what moved her most was a protracted moment that does not exist on the page: the pause when the reunited twins 'stand looking at each other in a silent ecstasy.' The greater of writers, who lavished his loquacity on all his characters, knew when words were redundant.”
― Peter Conrad, Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World