Sonnet 17 Quotes

“If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces”
― William Shakespeare

“It's true your smile, mild and full of peace, retains the power to calm my passion down and free me from the flames that torture me while I'm intent and fixed on watching you; but then my spirits are transformed to ice because we part and those two fatal stars direct their movements elsewhere, leaving me.”
― Francesco Petrarca