An honest appraisal of the respective pleasures derived from theater and cinema, at least as to what is less intellectual and more... direct about them, forces us to admit that the delight we experience at the end of a play has a more uplifting, a nobler, one might perhaps say a more moral, effect than the satisfaction which follows a good film. We seem to come away with a better conscience. In a certain sense it is as if for the man in the audience all theater is "Corneillian." From this point of view one could say that in the best films something is missing. It is as if a certain inevitable lowering of the voltage, some mysterious aesthetic short circuit, deprived us in the cinema of a certain tension which is a definite part of theater. No matter how slight this difference it undoubtedly exists, even between the worst charity production in the theater and the most brilliant of Olivier's film adaptations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every morn and every night Some to misery are born.... Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight,... Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for und...erstanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the unive...rse would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.... My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath--a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff--he's always, always in my mind--not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself--but as my own being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledg...e of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »