The Bard's best ever lines

Monday, April 23, 2012 Open Thread: The Bard's Best Ever Lines To celebrate Shakespeare's 448th birthday, we're compiling his finest ever words of wisdom. CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ADD THY OWN HAPPY BIRTHDAY: William Shakespeare "Brevity is the soul of wit" Art That Can't Be Typecast #BathroomBooks: Twitter Round Up Leonardo Da Vinci's Groundbreaking Anatomy Sketches To Go On Display BLOG POSTS David Galenson: Sir Damien Hirst: Artist or Entrepreneur? Hirst's enormous financial success, and the conspicuous delight he takes in it, have produced anguish, envy and outright hostility among many in England's staid and priggish art world, who cling to the ancient ideal that artists should be secular priests, who take vows of poverty and regard money as a source of corruption. Notting Hill Editions: The Long Agony of Grief In this extract from the introduction to Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary, Michael Wood examines Barthes' grief on losing his mother. Nancy Atkinson-Turner: My Spirit of Ecstasy I'm all for a love story that can be captured for eternity by a great artist or writer so when I heard that Rolls Royce had commissioned Rankin to create 100 images to celebrate The Sprit of Ecstasy centenary my head and my heart simultaneously exploded. Martin Middlebrook: Diary From Kabul - The Secret War Since my brush with death at the Ashura bombing in Kabul, and my crack on the head, I have developed a disturbing ability. In the same way that bats can locate moths by echolocation, I have discovered that I can locate furniture with my shins. We never stop learning it seems. It started in Dubai when I jammed my foot into a table and sliced my toe open. Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore: Is Censorship Castrating China's Best Writers?

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