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

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
–As You Like It,
Act III, Scene v

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
–Much Ado About Nothing,
Act IV, Scene i

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

Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
–Sonnet XIX (19)

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

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene i