“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.” — James Russell Lowell Quote

“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.”

“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”

“Light is the symbol of truth.”

“I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister and I got new shoes we'd do a little tap dance on the tiles. I also wrote poems but would read them from behind a curtain.”

“There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.”

“Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing.”