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-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height 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.
--Shakespeare
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. :)
You're making the rest of us look bad, you know. ;)
first time i encountered this sonnet was when Eisner quoted from it in a "Spirit" story...
I used that sonnet in my wedding vows--in English and translated into French.
"Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us together - today...When wuv, twu wuv..."
(Just got back from seeing Princess Bride at the Flashback Theatre)
Happy V-D to everyone (for the last 25 minutes anyways).
I dunno. I thought getting VD wasn't something you'd wish on friends....
ahh, eff me Alan Rickman, who unfortunately made the poem more famous than Shakespeare did.
(hmm, actually I guess we have to thank Emma Thompson rather than Alan Rickman, because he read Kate Winslet another poem- but he's the one I think of when I hear that sonnet!)
It IS lovely!
"O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;"
::sigh::
Peter-
Not directly related, and before it gets lost in comments about X Factor, I wanted to tell you that the the writing was spectacular. Jamie's inner monologue really hit me hard; I am in the process of a divorce, and not always taking it well. One of the best written things I've read in a while. Thanks.
I don't care what people say, that Shakespeare fella can WRITE!
Hmnn. Now I'm having flashbacks to the Shakespeare episode of Doctor Who.
Also remember this exchange from Doogie Howswer:
Doogie: "Show me a man who is not passion's slave, and I shall wear him in my heart of hearts, as I do thee."
Unknown psychiatrist: "Shakespeare. Damn the guy was good."