#shakes

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

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What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'? ↗

— Solange nicole

#poetry-life #shakespeare #solange #life

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #love

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. ↗

— Marc Norman

#love #poetry #shakespeare-in-love #viola-de-lesseps #life

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #men

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#shakespeare #men

Women may fail when there is no strength in man ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romance #romeo-juliet #sexes #shakespeare #men

I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders. ↗

— Martin Amis

#money

I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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