Lisa Hendrix

Some beasts aren’t meant to be tamed…

85 Words from the Master

Posted by Lisa Hendrix on November 13, 2007
Posted under Muse, Writing Life

I’m struggling with the last chapter or so and needed a reminder of how magical words can be in the right hands. Hope it inspires you, too.

There would have been a time for such a word
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

— Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V

I wonder how much Will revised? And would he have minded us calling him Will?

Lisa

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