A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.
Suicide kills two people. - Arthur Miller
Suicide kills two people.
- Arthur Miller
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. - Arthur Miller
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. - Arthur Miller
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. - Arthur Miller
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. - Arthur Miller
Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same! - Arthur Miller
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along w… - Arthur Miller
Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along w…
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! - Arthur Miller
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
He's liked, but he's not well liked. - Arthur Miller
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
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