William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
None can cure their harms by wailing them.
I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
Great griefs medicine the less.
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
How much an ill word may empoison liking!
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?