“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: Love Poems and Sonnets
“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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