Shakespeare

Just got this gorgeous scarf in the mail from Etsy - it's from the shop called "quotationmarks"!

so cozy

It's the softest and most beautiful white scarf I've ever owned, and then scrawled across it in beautiful handwritten script is this quote from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
      If this be error and upon me proved,
     I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

Sonnet 116

The portion in bold is what's on the scarf. I've always thought fondly of Shakespeare but didn't really fall hard for him until I took a class in college called "Shakespearean Comedies & Histories". We read As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice (which I was in the play for - as a dude - twas awesome...), A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, and all of the Henry plays. It also didn't hurt that the professor was quite dreamy and passionate about Shakespeare so it was so easy to want to learn as much as possible.

Thanks quotationmarks, for my new favorite Fall accessory!