Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)
Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Make them laugh, make them cry, or make them angry.”
Dacre's description of the best way to write for readers My Life in [the] Media: Des Kelly, The Independent, 12 December 2005 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/des-kelly-my-life-in-media-519169.html,
“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”
Advice given to an aspiring writer.
Attributed
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
Where Do the Children Play?
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
As quoted in ...
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56
Variants:
Poetry is the deification of reality.
As quoted in Life magazine (4 January 1963)
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 247
Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By ... (1968), p. 134
