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Shakespeare on the Uses of Poetry

Posted on October 6, 2012 by jimmie

“Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 3) Comments.  The Greeks had not one but four Muses of Poetry, Calliope (Epic poetry), Euterpe (Lyric poetry), Thalia Pastoral poetry) and Polyhymnia (Sacred poetry). Suggesting that poetry was more embedded in life and thought that our contemporaries may Read More

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Shakespeare on Age, Birthdays and the Passing of Time

Posted on October 5, 2012 by jimmie

“My glass shall not persuade me I am old As long as youth and thou are of one date.” (Sonnet 22) Comments.  Isn’t it true that we can see youth reflected back, at least virtually or in imagination? The idea could not be said better than with these lines. Tips for Use. Answer to “How Read More

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Shakespeare on the Speed of Thought

Posted on October 3, 2012 by jimmie

“For nimble thought can jump both sea and land, As soon as think the place where he would be.” (Sonnet 44) Comments.  Modern electronics has erased distances creating an almost instant virtual presence among people who may even live at the opposite side of the earth. Modern technology has also dramatically reduced the time required Read More

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Shakespeare on the Incompatibility of Love with Wisdom

Posted on September 30, 2012 by jimmie

 “… for to be wise and love, Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above. (Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2) Comments.  Cressida’s observation is hardly original. Ambrose Bierce, not directly testing the compatibility of wisdom with love, says about the latter,  “A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient Read More

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Shakespeare on How to Get to a Girl’s Heart

Posted on September 27, 2012 by jimmie

 “Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces, Though ne’er so black, say they have angels’ faces.” (Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 3, sc. 1) Comments. On flattery there is general consensus, it works. Oscar Wilde succinctly proclaimed that “flattery is the infantry of negotiations.” And Ovid, in his ‘Art of Love’, vol. 2 writes, “…each Read More

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Shakespeare, Compliments to a Lady and the Discreet Casanova

Posted on September 16, 2012 by jimmie

“Full many a lady I have eyed with best regards; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I lik’d several women; never any With so full a soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d, Read More

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Shakespeare on Memories, Nostalgia and Regret

Posted on September 6, 2012 by jimmie

 “When to the session of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste….” (Sonnet 30) Tips for Use.   Unsurpassed words to express that curious mixture of rising memories, nostalgia, melancholy, regret and remorse  Read More

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Shakespeare on Silence and Happiness

Posted on August 27, 2012 by jimmie

BEATRICE. Speak, count, it is your cue. CLAUDIO. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. (Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for Use. Excellent reply when you are not in the mood to talk and your silence is interpreted as moodiness, Read More

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Shakespeare on Women and Roses

Posted on August 25, 2012 by jimmie

“For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.” (Twelfth Night, act 2, sc. 4) Tips for Use. The statement suggests a double standard and a trace of ‘macho’ philosophy. You may just use ‘Women are as roses’. But if she is an insufferable lady very full of Read More

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Shakespeare on Love, Words of Love, Music, their Similarities & Interconnections

Posted on August 23, 2012 by jimmie

“How silver sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” (Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use.  You may drop the line in passing, especially if she said something nice. Not everyone held the same idea on the matter. In “The Anatomie of Abuse”, Philip Stubbes (1583-1591) writes, Read More

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