Lilines

“A vanitas by Heda or Freck shows how brilliantly and digressively ordinary items appear when they are not being interpreted—the glow of the tobacco, the tiny dimples on a stoneware jug, the mottlings on the surface of a skull. Attention was shifting from Christian symbolism to the things themselves, objects isolated from action or narrative, insolent in their insignificance.”
― Jonathan Lamb

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.'
'I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston

“... and Meyerhold added that when an actor needs the tweet-tweet of the birds to create an atmosphere of dawn, this means that he does not have enough power to create it through his gestures, voice, rhythms, tempo. He is the dawn, not the spotlights dimming or brightening, producing cold rather than warm light, and so forth... the actor must be the exclusive renderer of whatever happens... (Fo, in Dario Fo Explains: An Interview)”
― MICHAEL-EDITOR KIRBY, The Drama Review: Italian Theatre Issue: Vol 22 No 1 [t-77] March 1978