Famous quotes containing the word leave:
“In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.”
—James Bryce (1838–1922)
“Polonius. My lord, I will take my leave of you.
Hamlet. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will not more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)