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 prov'd,
                        I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.


 Excerpt from Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare

 

 

 

 

William Shakespeare
( English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare is recognized
in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Shakespeare's plays
communicate a profound knowledge of human behavior.  His use of poetic and
dramatic means to create a unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of
symbols and actions is recognized as an incredible achievement, and his use
of poetry within his plays to express the deepest levels of human emotion
and motivation is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in literary
history.