Stephen Greenblatt Quotes

Poems are difficult to silence.

1895

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

4036

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

3731

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

3497

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

2035