Wednesday, February 18, 2009

116 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. William Shakespeare We watched Sense and Sensibility last week and Jane Austen quotes Shakespeare's sonnets, this one is especially heavy in the script. I like it, how it speaks of love in constance.

1 comment:

Christie said...

I love this sonnet so much.