Quoth

"The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it...All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopaedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo: Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot in London last season.