“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.Ī lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound, He defines such a union as unalterable and eternal.” Berowne (Zachary Fine) professes his love for Rosaline (Kelsey Rainwater) in “Love’s Labor’s Lost.” With Yesenia Iglesias, Chani Wereley, Tonya Beckman, Amelia Pedlow. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, editors of The Folger Shakespeare, wrote of this famous sonnet, “The poet here meditates on what he sees as the truest and strongest kind of love, that between minds. In an interview on Shakespeare Unlimited, Folger Director Emerita Gail Kern Paster noted that Sonnet 116 is a frequent choice for wedding toasts. That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” Neuer before imprinted.” William Shakespeare.
What does Shakespeare have to say about love? Let’s start with the basics. ⇒ Related: Read, search, and download all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for free with The Folger Shakespeare. Add to that 59 instances of “ beloved” and 133 uses of “lov ing” and you’ve got yourself a “whole lotta love.” So, what does Shakespeare have to say about the subject? Here are 20 quotations from the Bard about love. The word “love” appears 2,146 times in Shakespeare’s collected works (including a handful of “loves” and “loved”). We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.Orlando (Lorenzo Roberts) and Rosalind (Lindsay Alexandra Carter) flirt in the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Folger Theatre, 2017. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. That we could be together for twenty years. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural.
We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. “When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.
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