Williams Plays Spanish

Famous quotes containing the words williams, plays and/or spanish:

“Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse—
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

“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)

“The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)