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William Shakespeare18 quotes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare · 1609My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare · 1609When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love'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. — William Shakespeare · 1609All 18 quotes →Elizabeth Barrett Browning2 quotes
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850Eugene Lee-Hamilton1 quote
Things bygone are the only things that last:
The Present is mere grass, quick-mown away;
The Past is stone, and stands for ever fast. — Eugene Lee-Hamilton · 1894Frederick Goddard Tuckerman1 quote
His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars. — Frederick Goddard Tuckerman · 1860Michelangelo1 quote
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo · 1525Philip Sidney1 quote
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face! — Philip Sidney · 1591