Tom Stoppard Quotes

We Can All Be Clockmakers, Or Astronomers. But If We All Wanted To Be Pushkin ... If The Question Is, How Do You Make A Poem By Pushkin?- Or, What Exactly Makes One Poem Or Painting Or Piece Of Music Greater Than Another?- Or, What Is Beauty?, Or Liberty?, Or Virtue?- If The Question Is, How Should We Live? ... Then, Reason Gives No Answer Or Different Answers. So Something Went Wrong. The Divine Spark In Man Is Not Reason After All, But Something Else, Some Kind Of Intuition Or Vision, Perhaps Like The Moment Of Inspiration Experienced By The Artist ...

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