When studyin' for my last exam... I found in my course this beautiful sonnet:
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.
Paraphrase in modern English...
I will not be forced to admit/accept change to the union of two faithful minds
True love is not the kind of love that changes when its circumstances change
Or bends from its firm stand when a lover is unfaithful
Oh no, it is a lighthouse
That sees storms but is never shaken by them
Love is the guiding North star to every lost ship
The true nature/value of which is unknown although its altitude can be measured
Love is not controlled/employed by time (love is eternal)
Though physical beauty comes into the area where the sickle is acting/ physical beauty is altered
Love doesn't change with the time/the hours and the weeks
But it rather continues until the day of death
If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love
I no longer think that what I have written and I claim that no man has ever truly loved