You Can't Write Poems About

Only Bad Generals Need Heroes.

Art Is Not A Mirror Held Up To Reality But A Hammer With Which To Shape It.

It Is Not Enough To Demand Insight And Informative Images Of Reality From The Theater. Our Theater Must Stimulate A Desire For Understanding, A Delight In Changing Reality. Our Audience Must Experience Not Only The Ways To Free Prometheus, But Be Schooled In The Very Desire To Free Him. Theater Must Teach All The Pleasures And Joys Of Discovery, All The Feelings Of Triumph Associated With Liberation.

Who Built The Seven Gates Of Thebes? In The Books Are Listed The Names Of Kings. Did The Kings Heave Up The Building Blocks?

I Am A Playwright. I Show What I Have Seen. In The Man Markets I Have Seen How Men Are Traded. That I Show, I, The Playwright.