Friday, January 27, 2006

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's ode to love here is perfect in describing how love between any two people should not be prevented nor taught to be disdained. I have just started reading the sonnets, and was hoping to find one in which he writes about an ideal love, and so happily still, therefore, do I find one where he expresses his love for a young man.

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