22 Quotes by Maxwell Anderson

If other planets dark as earthAbout dim trembling starsCarry frail freight of death and birth,Wild love, and endless wars;If from far, unseen motes in flightLife look down questioningThis helpless passage through the nightIs a less lonely thing:

Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime

So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.

Everybody thought the newspaper would end the discussions around the hearth, or that radio would end the newspaper, or that TV would end radio, ... Everybody always fears this and yet we always make more psychic room for all of these media.