Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
莎士比亚是自己唯一的传记作者;即使是他,也只能向我们心中的莎士比亚诉说,也就是在我们最敏锐、最能共情的时刻诉说。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays · Shakspeare; or, the Poet —