Quotes by : Stephen Greenblatt

Human beings, Lucretius thought, must not drink in the poisonous belief that their souls are only part....

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal....

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in....

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well....

There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must....

Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived....

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of....

Poems are difficult to silence.