And so the beauty of exploring love continues!

Ornella Santilli Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm edit

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.

William Shakespeare

And so the beauty of exploring love continues!

I hate to harp, but had to highlight this amazing Shakespeare quote. Funny thing, this was read at my parents wedding! Good taste Ornella.

xo
a

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  • Josh

    It’s not harping when you provide a beautiful quote like that. I can see why it would be read at a wedding. It’s a great expression of the commitment and love each person has for the other.

  • Lynsey

    I love this sonnet, I read it at my best friend’s wedding a couple of years ago :)

  • http://ivicio.wordpress.com/ iVicio

    Deep

  • Jade Ruby

    I like the way Shakespeare’s words in this poem echoes so deeply. Humph, it’s been some years since I’ve read him regularly. I had a book of his collected works, but I gave it to one of my cousins because she loves Shakespeare, and I’ve never took the time to get back into him.

  • http://awakeinyou.blogspot.com Ruthie

    This one cannot be read enough…good taste indeed Ornella!

  • Amanda N.

    I love how sweet and sentimental this is.It sounds so true and right somehow,I think the eleventh line is my favorite.This is a beautiful sonnet that sounds so lovely when saying it aloud.Thanks Ornella for sharing it with us.

  • Tucker

    It seems such a cliche to say it but Shakespeare truly is universal. The man (or committee, depending on what you want to believe) wrote in the simplest of terms and truths and yet is sound profound in just that.

    So many want to be clever. He was just honest. And this speaks so honestly on love.

  • Tucker

    “Sound profound”??? So profound, that should’ve read.

    But hey, maybe I just came up with a new phrase. That’s sound profound.

    *shrugs*

  • Beth

    It really is a beautiful poem.

  • Robin

    We can never get enough of reading works about love, it’s as much a mystery today as at anytime throughout the ages.

  • Kathy-Lynn

    There is a song that was orginally song by Jon Bon Jovi and I just recently heard it again now being song by Hinder. It is called “Bed Of Roses”… It’s such a wonderful love song.

    Love is a beautiful emotion shared between two people. It’s like your hearts are in sink, and you can feel them breathing within your soul. I couldn’t imagine another feeling that could make you happing and scared and excited all at one time. I wrote a small part of the song below that I love the most…

    BED OF ROSES…

    With an ironclad fist I wake up
    and french kiss the morning
    While some marching band keeps
    its on beat in my head
    While we’re talking
    About all of the things I long to believe
    about love and truth
    what you mean to me
    Anmd the truth is baby you’re all that I need

    I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
    for tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
    Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
    and lay you down on a bed of roses

    We’ll I’m so far away
    step that I takes on my way home
    A king’s ransom in dimes give each night
    to through this payphone
    Still I run out of time
    Or it’s hard to get through
    Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
    I just close my eyes and whisper,
    baby blind love is true

    I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
    For tonight I sleep on nails
    Oh, I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
    And lay you down on a bed of roses

    Well thats just the middle part of the song that I love best… Hope you like it too…

    Kathy-Lynn Brown

  • Jesse

    Hi Allison

    Yes, this is a great poem about love, the strength of the oneness between husband and wife, can do anything. It’s a beautiful poem, yet still not as beautiful as you umm

    Jesse-
    Continue to love, it conquers all

  • Susana

    that was a great little love quote that Ornella put in & it was great you shared it with us :) . Keep on with the love Allison

    Take Care, Susana

  • Glenise

    What a beautful quote to start the day here in Australia.
    Love & hugs
    Glenise

  • william

    love…

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    Love should be like a muscle — growing stronger as it is exercised. It shouldn’t be a constant. It should grow. That would be the opposite of “familiarity breeds contempt.”

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    Since I had another busy day and am too tired to give an opposing argument, I am going to turn this over to the J. Geils Band who have graciously agreed to fill in for me tonight.

    ====

    “Love Stinks”

    He loves her
    But she loves this guy right here
    And he loves somebody else
    You just can’t win
    And so it goes
    Till the day you die
    This thing they call love
    It’s gonna make you cry
    I’ve had the blues
    The reds and the pinks
    One thing for sure

    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah

    Two by two and side by side
    Love’s gonna find you yes it is
    You just can’t hide
    You’ll hear it call
    Your heart will fall
    Then love will fly
    It’s gonna soar
    I don’t care for any casanova thing
    All I can say is
    Love stinks

    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah

    I’ve been through diamonds
    I’ve been through minks
    I’ve been through it all
    Love stinks

    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah
    (Love stinks)
    Love stinks yeah yeah

  • Aziza

    awww, that was beautiful.

  • Jade Ruby

    Then there was this famous tragic love affair:

    Abelard and Heloise were prominent intellectuals of twelfth century France. Abelard, of noble birth and eighteen years the senior of Heloise, was a prominent lecturer in philosophy. Abelard was an adventurous thinker, and was constantly at odds with the Church. On several occasions he was forced to recant and burn his writings.
    Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. At age 19, and living under her uncle Fulbert’s roof, Heloise fell in love with Abelard, who she was studying under. Not only did they have a clandestine affair of a sexual nature, they had a child, Astrolabe, out of wedlock. Discovered by Fulbert (who was a Church official), Abelard was assaulted by a hired thug and mutilated, and Heloise entered a convent. Abelard was exiled to Brittany, where he lived as monk. Eventually Heloise became abbess of the Oratory of the Paraclete, an abbey which Abelard had founded.
    It was at this time that they exchanged their famous letters. The letters, originally written in Latin, are passionate both in the remembrance of lost love, and the attempt to reconcile that love with their respective monastic duty to remain chaste. The tension between these two poles generates a huge amount of emotional electricity.

    To Peter Abelard:
    I have your picture in my room. I never pass by it without stopping to look at it; and yet when you were present with me, I scare ever cast my eyes upon it. If a picture which is but a mute representation of an object can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls, they can speak, they have in them all that force which expresses the transport of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions….

    Heloise
    (http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aah/img/vignaud.jpg)

  • Aziza

    Just some poems.

    Love is Reckless by Rumi

    Love is reckless; not reason.
    Reason seeks a profit.
    Love comes on strong,
    consuming herself, unabashed.

    Yet, in the midst of suffering,
    Love proceeds like a millstone,
    hard surfaced and straightforward.

    Having died of self-interest,
    she risks everything and asks for nothing.
    Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

    Without cause God gave us Being;
    without cause, give it back again.
    …………………………………
    He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by Yeats

    HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,

    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half-light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
    …………………………..

  • Sean

    It didn’t really dawn upon me, how much has been creatively expressed about “love”…

    From thousands of years ago, to Shakespeare, to the 80′s, to today and beyond…

    Here’s some of the 80′s:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1DSG3xYoY

  • Kathy

    That is a very beautiful and romantic poem, and perfect for a wedding–your parents and Ornella Santilli have excellent taste.

  • Silvia

    Shakespeare was a genius and his works and so his words enrich people in many ways. Shakespeare – the truest artist of all time.

    “If music be the food of love, play on…” (Twelfth Night)

  • Jenny

    That was a beautiful poem by Ornella Santilli.

  • Jade Ruby

    It’s about 4pm in Prague now.
    Thanks for sharing with us Allison, as usual.
    Have a nice and safe trip back home.

    Smooches,

    The Jade Ruby

  • Jade Ruby

    I believe this with all my heart!

    “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.”

    William Shakespeare

  • http://awakeinyou.blogspot.com Ruthie

    Since Aziza shared something from Rumi, I can’t help but offer one of my favorite mystic love poems from Hafiz:

    The Woman I Love

    Because the Woman I love lives inside of you,
    I lean as close to your body with my words as I can–
    and I think of you all the time,
    dear pilgrim.

    Because the One I love goes with you wherever you go,
    Hafiz will always be
    near.

    If you sat before me, wayfarer, with your aura bright from your many charms,

    my lips could resist rushing to you, but my eyes, my eyes
    can no longer hide the wondrous fact of who
    you really are.

    The Beautiful One who I adore
    has pitched His royal tent inside of you,

    so I will always lean my heart
    as close to your soul
    as I can.

  • Ornella Santilli

    Dear Allison: when I read this blog I couldn’t believe it that YOU had quoted my comment about one of my favourite Shakespeare’s sonnet!!!!

    I really cried!!! And it is beautiful because I’m really excited and astonished but about all extremely grateful!!!!!

    I worship literature and obviously, Shakespeare is my favourite writer!!!!! There are not words to describe Literature but deep feelings!!!!! Through literature human beings are capable of expressings emotions, thoughts,feelings!!! It is a human intellegence’s vehicle which differences us from the lower species!!!!

    THANKS ALLISON!!!!!!!!! I’M REALLY GRATEFUL!!!!

    I LOVE YOU A LOT!!!!!!

    Ornella, your fan and friend from Argentina.

    P.S: you really made me cry!!!! Thanks!!!

  • Ornella Santilli

    Dear friends (Allison, Josh,Lynsey, Jade Ruby, Ruthie, Amanda N., Tucker, Beth, Robin, Kathy-Lynn, Jesse, Susana, william, David Hayes, Aziza, Kathy, etc)
    I hope not forgetting somebody!!!!

    I want to thank all of you!!!! Through this amazing blog we are becoming friends!!!

    Yes, true friends sharing our feelings and thoughts and that is really beautiful!!!! I love making friends!!!! I like sharing my life with you, guys!!!

    Thanks for being there!!!! Thanks for sending me your good feelings and positive energy!!!!!

    Your loyal friend, Ornella.

  • Ornella Santilli

    Here is another quote for you guys:

    “Friendship is Love without wings”

  • Irene

    “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.”-
    Song of Solomon 8:6

    Intense!

  • Jade Ruby

    So. Are you ready for the flight home yet?
    You have a couple of more days left?
    Hope you have a safe flight home Allison.

  • Jade Ruby

    So have you talked to Kristin Kreuk lately?
    How have ya’ll compared notes about travel?

  • Jade Ruby

    Man, WTF! Aaron got the axe babe!
    We love you so much. When they find Lois&Clark, Chloe transcended the whole thing, just as they predicted. You are so beautiful on your own terms Allison.

  • Jade Ruby

    Of course CS rather than LL may be a small price to pay for the evolution of the series. I think it’s important that Chlark think about death. Marvel so easily crossed the line!
    It’s the practice that separated the heroes from the simply generous.

  • Jade Ruby

    Man, I don’t mind Smallville getting dark. I do prefer Clark really having that choice to cross the line to kill or not.
    Of course, I also kept track of Lana’s murders as she developed as a character.

  • Jade Ruby

    I got to say, there is still a chance of true romance with Clark&Chloe.

  • Jade Ruby

    You know what? It’s been so difficult for TV to advance beyond the high school years of main characters. Now that Smallville has advanced beyond that point, the producers need to look at the possibilities available, besides that freaking dark camera work.
    Superman’s group had always avoided killing as a solution. So what are they gonna do now?

  • Jade Ruby

    Of course Chloe could be involved with a CSI type thing as WatchTower.

  • Jade Ruby

    Oh Jeeze, I can see Clark running in and out on Chloe as WatchTower now.

  • Jade Ruby

    Well. . . I like Lois’s dark hair, finally. Their repartee needs improvement as they fall deeper in love; however, Chloe should be fulfilled after all her years of loyalty.

  • Jade Ruby

    This is of course just my opinion.

  • Jade Ruby

    Well Allison, the end of the month is fast approaching, and another project will have your attention. Take your rest, do your best.

    The Jade Ruby

  • Jade Ruby

    Well tonight has been wrapped up tight. Thank God from your entire role this week. I hope that the energy generated by you and the output in Prague continue for a good while.

  • Jade Ruby

    Even as I type this, there are folks yelling out in the streets where I live. The people around here, really don’t want the shit to stop as the mixed income culture arrives here in full force.

  • Maria

    David Hayes I’m guessing you think Love Stinks right? XD

    Though I couldn’t agree more right now! LOL

  • Jade Ruby

    Here I am saying, “as the mixed income culture arrives here in full force. . .” Fuck that! It’s here now! Melonfarmers are left trying to close the gaps that have been wide open for years. Man, I go outside now to walk through my ‘hood and see a generous mix of world culture. I see a guy delivering Chinese, and think to myself, “Damn, I haven’t had take out in a while.”

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    Maria,

    I let J. Geils say that because I wasn’t up to doing a counterpoint. I think true love is probably one of the few things that doesn’t stink as it gets older … but the question is, “What is true love?” A lot of what is labelled as love causes tremendous grief in the world. To be more specific — selfish desire, possessiveness, jealousy, lust ….

  • http://awakeinyou.blogspot.com Ruthie

    Can I go off topic?
    Allison…watching Cross Wires’ live broadcast from Prague for the second time today…breathtaking, stirring, stifling, healing, painfully true…and inspiring. The whole company did a wonderful job…obviously heartfelt and personal…what a journey for you all.
    This performance will linger with me for a while…taking some time to meddle and settle in my heart….to find our footing, find our voices, express our essence, and be. Thank you for sharing this inspired and soulful performance…

    R

  • http://Allisonmack.com Smallvillekent

    Allison, Love the Shakespeare Quote. Thanks Ornella for posting that Quote. In Smallville the true love is Clark and Chloe. I hope the writers give these two a romance this year. Clark and Chloe need it. We need it. Also congrats on Crossed Wires. Great job. Wish I could have been there. Peter

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