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What does it mean?
Emotions like time, desire, and memory shape human life.
In plain terms
Feelings change with time.
What can you take from it?
Reflect on how feelings evolve.

Where it applies

  • personal reflection
  • writing
  • grief

Putting it to work

  • journal feelings
  • track changes
  • create art

Questions to consider

  • How does time change love?
  • What lasts beyond memory?

Another view

Poems reflect personal voice, not universal rules.

More from William Shakespeare

  1. Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

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  2. On a day-alack the day!- Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

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  3. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

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