Richard Howard Quotations

She was there every day, sometimes three times a day. I felt bad for her.

She was not only an actress but worked in every area of theatre, designing costumes and set pieces.

Yeah, but I'm 81. How many more days have I got? Three?

What I want to enforce on these children is what it takes to get this job, which is education.

I call it wiggle wiggle. We're going to stick with the waltz.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.