Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five lin...ks on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something ...you can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little colu...mn of theatrical news, is a lost soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--He's a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He's not one of your common or garden ... you know ... There's a touch... of the artist about old Bloom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscio...us rational reagent between a micro and macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in... this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What went forth to the ends of the world to traverse not itself, God, the sun, Shakespeare, a commercial traveller, having itself ...traversed in reality itself becomes that self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: it is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. The Roman, like t...he Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »