Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Your PW editor is off to a wedding this weekend (and a much needed vacation). In that spirit, here's one of my favorite Shakespeare sonnets.


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

13 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:45 AM

    W.S is the all time Best!! None better than him...literally. The Father of all things literary.

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  2. The old English palls at times, but what majestic thoughts!
    As undergraduates we had a whole paper on Shakespeare.
    Some lines are timeless - so are these.

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  3. this guy is good. he should write more often.

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  4. Love, the ancient and unrelenting topic of poet, musician, artist, man.
    We have written about it since we learnt to write. Shakespeare’s, were some of the best.

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  5. "love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds"

    I have that quote as my "motto" portion of my myspace page :)

    Sonnet 116 is one of my favorite of his sonnets. They are so beautiful.

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  6. Love's no times fool !
    what a wonderful way to say that Love is immortal !

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  7. "love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds" I have that quote as my "motto" portion of my myspace page :) Sonnet 116 is one of my favorite of his sonnets. They are so beautiful.

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  8. عزيزي العميل إن القيام بعملية نقل العفش من مكان لآخر أمر متعب وشاق للغاية وليس امرا سهلاً كما يعتقد البعض ويحتاج إلى فنين ومتخصصين وعمال وتقنيين للقيام به؛ فإذا أردت أن تحصل على افضل خدمة نقل العفش من أعلى المستويات من التخطيط الجيد والجودة فلن تجد أفضل من شركة نقل عفش بالرياض.
    إن هدف شركة نقل عفش بالرياض الأول والاخير هو إرضاء عملائها الكرام ولذلك نعدكم بأن تنال كافة خدماتنا علي رضاكم واعجابكم ، ويشهد لنا بالكفاءة والمهارة والأمانة عملائنا اللذين سبقوا بالتعامل معنا .
    طريقة تركيب اثاث ايكيا
    فني تركيب اثاث ايكيا بالرياض
    شركة تركيب اثاث ايكيا بالرياض
    فني تركيب ستائر بالرياض
    عامل شركة تركيب ستائر بالرياض
    شركة تركيب ستائر بالرياض
    شركة تركيب باركية بالرياض
    ارخص باركية بالرياض
    فني تركيب غرف نوم بالرياض
    شركة تركيب غرف نوم بالرياض
    طريقة تركيب غرف النوم صيني
    شركة تركيب عفش بالرياض
    شركة تنظيف مكيفات بالرياض

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