Stopgap/theatre/poetry

Famous quotes containing the words theatre and/or poetry:

    The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.”
    Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    Most people ignore most poetry
    because
    most poetry ignores most people.
    Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)