An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right
« A Moderate’s New Years’ Wish List:
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) »
Literary Quote of the Day: William Shakespeare
Today’s literary quote of the day is William Shakespeare‘s Sonnet CXLVII:
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are,
At random from the truth vainly express’d;
For I have sworn thee fair, and though thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
As always, feel free to share your thoughts regarding this particular quote or drop one of your own favorite literary quotes in the comment section of this post.
P.S.
You all should expect to read more quotes from Shakespeare, not just because I got his entire works for Christmas, but more so because he simply is the greatest poet the world ever brought forth.
8 Responses to “Literary Quote of the Day: William Shakespeare”
That certainly sounds exactly like what it’s like to fall in love with the wrong person especially the “My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept”. My literary knowledge is shamefully limited, so I have nothing to offer in return.
Thanks.
I’m 42 shes 40, hadn’t talked to her in 12 years, then she hits on my email last February. The she plays this weird new game,..
No address, no phone number, no clue where her business website might be, she talks endlessly about having a website to sell container loads of cheap Chinese scooters, motorcycles, generators, all that.
I love motorcycles, and she damn well knows it.
So this girl who loves me dearly has a motorcycle dealership and she teases the hell out of me with it.
I’ve been in love with this girl from the time she was 12 and I was 14.
the hardest part is there is no schedule, she made a real point of that, so I never know if she read my emails to her, for days and then she never really answers what I write about she just sends an email , about other things, spontaneously.
I think Mr Shakespeare was talking about the thing we call Co- dependent. That is where a man can not get any support from the community when he is sober and his girlfriend is a drunk, and he gets addicted to her.
This is sort of new to me, the idea that a sober person ca get addicted to a person who drinks or does drugs.
So my behavior is the same as an addicts, that is weird, when I see it, I say and do weird stuff, but Im totally sober and happy, this woman is just driving me crazy, and of course nobody is going to help me when I am acting crazy.
I think we might try to at least not take advantage of the families that have problems with addiction or whatever, they might be weak, for a while, but I think people are pretending Darwin gave us permission to finish them off if they a have a few weak years.
You can make money by working or take the cheap way and take the television of some family who has a problem with alcohol or drugs.”
Before Christ, SUN TZU said that soldiers would drink too much alcohol, so our society is militant industrial , that is the cause of the alcohol and drugs. But our society is BASED on pretending we have an enemy, not really having one.
So we need to start looking around and simply admitting that there are no bad guys and until they arrive we need to stop pretending they might get here any second.
My girlfriend is in love with me, but I am a civilian and she is a civilian, and pretending we are in a military situation, drives us both to distraction.
Abraham Lincoln’s astonishing prose came from being self taught relying heavily on the Bible and Shakespeare.
It can’t be dismissed that one of the main attractions to Obama is his talent and skill as a writer and orator.
I’m partial to Hamlet myself…
By Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame!
I’ll stop there. Saucy old fellow, the Bard.
Paul, yes studying Shakespeare is a great way of improving ones language skills. I also heard something like that once.
Tip to all, read Shakespeare alloud. Dont read him silently.
Tully: you enjoy the literary quotes?
Absolutely, Michael! Too many people think that history began when they learned to read. Our ancestors may have lacked our technology, but they weren’t dumb.
Not sure how the double comment got in there. I’m fairly sure my fingers didn’t stutter.
Ah who cares. Suddenly looks as if this topic has quite somecomments… jk of course
Absolutely, Michael! Too many people think that history began when they learned to read. Our ancestors may have lacked our technology, but they weren’t dumb.
I agree completely. In fact, sometimes I think that not having certain technology gave them more opportunities to write and to develop reason skills, etc.
And Lynx, that does not matter of course. I hope that you simply enjoy the quotes, that they appeal to you.
And… yes, I agree with your comment, Shakespeare expressed it so well though.