Famous quotes containing the words black and/or plays:
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)