A quotation from Shakespeare

HELENA: Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
   Love can transpose to form and dignity.
   Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
   And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
   Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste.
   Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
   And therefore is Love said to be a child
   Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, sc. 1, ll. 238ff (1.1.238-245) (1605)

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Shakespeare, William - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, sc. 1, ll. 238ff (1.1.238-245) (1605) | WIST Quotations

HELENA: Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste. Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste. And therefore is…

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In the tangled woods of fate, where lovers chase shadows under a mischievous moon, Shakespeare whispers a timeless truth: "The course of true love never did run smooth."

Yet, isn't that the thrill? The bumps, the twists, the fairy spells that test our hearts. True love isn't a straight path—it's an adventure worth every detour.

Embrace the chaos. 💕✨

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@samuelpepys

"Midsummer’s Night’s Dream [...] is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."

Disagreeing with you on the artistic value of the play, Sam, but I will make "insipid" part of my active vocab, and for that I thank you. As I thank you for all your posts. You are a good Mastodonian, Sam.

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I'm starting to agree with #overlysarcasticproductions Red's remark that #shakespeare #MidsummerNightsDream fairy cast needs to be something more than "some guys with Celtic tattoos and bits of vine"

We have the cosplay technology to do some Deltoro-worthy Green-man #fey eldrich monsters, surely

@bytebro

Do you think that you could pass O Level English Lit, with that as the set text, on that amount of reading? (-:

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Wiederaufnahme ab Mittwoch dem 14. März: Ein Sommernachtstraum von William Shakespeare am Schlosstheater Moers

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A quotation from Shakespeare

ROBIN: And those things do best please me
   That befall prepost’rously.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, sc. 2, ll. 122ff (3.2.122-123) (1605)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

THESEUS: The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
   Doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven,
   And as imagination bodies forth
   The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
   Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
   A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, sc. 1, ll. 10ff (5.1.10-14) (1605)

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