Unshakable
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds…
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
–Sonnet CXVI (116)

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds…
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
–Sonnet CXVI (116)

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most.
–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v

O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou.
–Twelfth Night,
Act I, Scene i

Love’s arms are peace, ‘gainst rule, ‘gainst sense, ‘gainst shame,
And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.
–A Lover’s Complaint