Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments
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Her literary debut, “True Minds,” was filled with love poems to her husband, and took its name from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.”
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Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” — “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments” — is an excellent example.
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In The Tempest, the sacred marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda promises, at last, a marriage worth having – one that Shakespeare fantasised about years earlier in Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”
From The Guardian
Among these poems are some of the most famously romantic lines in English literature, including, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments,” and, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds/admit impediments – that's what Shakespeare said in a sonnet.
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