“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― Twelfth Night
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― Twelfth Night
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
― Living Buddha, Living Christ
― Living Buddha, Living Christ
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― The Complete Poems
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― The Complete Poems
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― Julius Caesar
― Julius Caesar
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