We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature. - M.H. Abrams
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. - M.H. Abrams