Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Quote of the Day (William Shakespeare, on ‘The Uncertain Glory of an April Day’)


“O, how this spring of love resemblet
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away." — English playwright-poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (ca. 1589-1593)

Well, there’s at least one April day that possesses certain glory: April 23, The Bard’s birthday. Four centuries after his death, scholars still speculate on who William Shakespeare was and the forces in his life that made him such a fearless explorer of the human heart.

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