“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, ...” — John Donne Quote

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

“God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”

“Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.”

“The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.”

“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”

“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”