Who said “To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”?

“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

“I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”

“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”

“Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”

“When I give I give myself.”

“We convince by our presence.”

“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”