As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.
Interpretation
This quote expresses an overwhelming sense of wonder and appreciation for life's experiences.
William Shakespeare's quote emphasizes the boundless and extraordinary aspects of life, capturing the essence of feeling awed and enchanted by the beauty and intricacies of existence. The repetition of the word 'wonderful' highlights the intensity and multiplicity of those feelings, suggesting that life is filled with marvellous moments that deserve acknowledgment and celebration.
In practice
During a toast at a wedding, one might quote Shakespeare to celebrate the wonder of love.
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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