“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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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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