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
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul
I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
A dream itself is but a shadow.
And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;
Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
Swift as shadow, short as any dream
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.