What distinguishes Shakespeare above any writer in history is his humanity: his sympathy with our fallibility. We are all flawed heroes, or heroic villains. His poetry is heartbreakingly beautiful, simple, and contains an ancient wisdom. He understood every extremity of human nature - our complexities and contradictions - with such extraordinarily attentive levels of comprehension and compassion. Reading his plays is like staring at the ocean - it makes you feel wiser, calmer, at peace. ~ Tom Hiddleston