{"id":166,"date":"2023-08-16T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/brighde-mullins\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:42:23","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/brighde-mullins\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n                                                                \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cTo live in the world of creation&#8211;to get into it and stay in it&#8211;to frequent it and haunt it&#8211;to think intensely and fruitfully&#8211;to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation&#8211;this is the only thing.\u201d &#8212;<em>Henry James<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201c&#8230;as a poet in the american theatre\/i find most activity that takes place on our stage to be overwhelmingly shallow\/stilted and imitative. that is probably one of the reasons I insist on calling myself a poet or writer\/rather than a playwright\/i am solely interested in the poetry of the moment\/the emotional and aesthetic impact of a character on a line. for too long now afro-americans in theatre have been duped by the same artificial aesthetics that plague our white counterparts\/ \u201cthe perfect play,\u201d\u00a0 as we\u00a0 know it to be\/ a truly european framework for european psychology\/ cannot function efficiently for those of us from this hemisphere&#8230;theatre&#8230;is an all-encompassing moment\/ a moment of poetry\/the opportunity to make something happen.\u201d &#8212;<em>Ntozake Shange<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cI come more to realize that it is not a question of new and old forms, but that what matters is that a man should write without thinking of forms at all, write because it springs freely from his soul.\u201d &#8212;<em>Anton Chekhov<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cI could not bear to be here without leaving a stain upon the silence.\u201d &#8212;<em>Samuel Beckett<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cThe first thing is to comprehend the new subject-matter\u2014the second is to shape the new relations\u2014the reason? Art follows reality.\u201d &#8212;<em>Bertolt Brecht<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cThe archaic and primitive ritual dramas, which acknowledged all sides of human nature, including the destructive, demonic, and ambivalent, were liberating and harmonizing&#8230;\u201d &#8212;<em>Gary Snyder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cWhat we refer to when we speak sentimentally about the \u2018power of the live event\u2019 is merely the frisson, becoming rare in this age of electronic simulation, of being proximate to something that can end up soaring or falling flat on its ass.\u201d &#8212;<em>Tony Kushner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cDrama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally there should be no spectators. In practice every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.\u201d &#8212;<em>W.H. Auden\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cWriting is a religious act. It is an ordering, a re-learning and re-loving of people and the world as they are and as they might be.\u201d &#8212;<em>Sylvia Plath<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cA story isn\u2019t really any good unless it successfully resists paraphrase, unless it hangs and expands in the mind\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>I don\u2019t have any pretensions to being an Aeschylus or Sophocles\u2026but I do think, like the Greeks, that you should know what is going to happen in a story so that any element of surprise will be transferred from its surface to its interior\u2026.\u201d &#8212;<em>Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>\u201c<\/em>I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe them. 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I wish I could remember the Latin\u2014it is even finer in Latin than in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u2018Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved.\u00a0 Do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>That sentence has a wonderful shape.\u00a0 It is the shape that matters.\u201d &#8212;<em>Samuel Beckett<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>\u201cArt is the habit of the artist; and habits have to be rooted deep in the whole personality. 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