The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Date of birth: 1552-00-00
Date of death: 1599-01-13
Quotes number: 11
Nationality: English
Profession: Poet
All you can do is the best you can do.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
I wanted to play baseball!
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.