Sonnet 116Let 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 ckeeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. - William Shakepeare Maybe it's just me, but it's just odd how a man like him can write so much about love and be able to evoke so many emotions when he loved his wife only so much as to leave her the second best bed in the house when he died. |