#spear

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

— Solange nicole

#poetry-life #shakespeare #solange #life

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#literature #shakespeare #love

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor

William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player? ↗

— Marc Norman

#viola-de-lesseps #william-shakespeare #love

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men

Brutus: Kneel not, gentle Portia. Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it excepted I should know no secrets That appertain to you? Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. ↗

— William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

#shakespeare #marriage

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

I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fortune #king-lear #william-shakespeare #nature

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#enchantment #shakespeare #spells #art

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare