“If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.” IfsHas BeensStillsDreamLastsNightDiesSleepCrossesDirectPerformancesHungerTheatreIntenseWitnessEvery NightThresholdAuditoriums Author:Declan Donnellan
“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.” FeelsHeartDoeEndsPainSufferingDiesCausesBlackGriefCompassionGraceSadnessGoldAnd LoveRemainsIntenseLayersPearlsCoinsResignationKernelBlack Pearl Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.” FeelsWantedPainDiesLike YouOvercomingIntenseSatisfying Author:Clara Hughes
“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.” GivingSeemsPoetryDiesPassionStarsSexPoetGoes OnMoodIntenseOddBurnedVerses Author:D. H. Lawrence