Shakespeare on Love

Given that I'm spending the summer with dear old Bill, I thought I'd ferret out some of his all-too-famous love quotes and post them here. I guess I could find betrayal quotes or hatred quotes, but who reads those? Bill is quite good at writing about love.

All days are nights till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
(Sonnet 43)

Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
But was a race of heaven.
(Antony & Cleopatra 1.3)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1)

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek.
(Romeo & Juliet 2.2)

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
(The Tempest 3.1)

Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
(Twelfth Night 3.1)

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.
(Othello 5.2)

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
(Hamlet 2.2)


I had to look all of these up online because I don't have a copy of the Complete Works with me (otherwise I would have actually looked for them myself).

I will not doubt that some of the male young company members have voices that make me...well, quite weak, actually...when I hear them speaking Shakespeare. If I weren't in the happiest relationship of my life I would be falling pretty hard for the owners of those voices. My friend Mary Beth would probably say something like, "I don't really need them for anything but their voices. I'd probably keep one (or more) of them locked in the basement, only to come out to speak Shakespeare to me as I drift off to sleep each night." This is how I feel about them. What can I say? I have a weakness for delicious low voices. (Don't judge me, but it is for this very reason that I've had a celebrity crush on Alan Rickman for a long time. SHUT UP! I know he's old, but his voice makes him SEXY!)

I'm off. Probably to update in one of my other blogs about whatever the next thing on my mind will be.

`Mira