Weddings

…For if you’re young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad

whatever’s living will yourself become.

Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:

i can entirely her only love

whose any mystery makes every man’s

flesh put space on; and his mind take off time

that you should ever think, may god forbid

and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:

for that way knowledge lies, the foetal grave

called progress, and negation’s dead undoom,

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing

than teach ten thousand starts how not to dance

— e.e. cummings

Princeton University

Iowa State University

University of Chicago

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Duquesne University

Southern Wesleyan University

University of Glasgow

Princeton University

Wartburg College Iowa

University of Cambridge

University of St. Thomas Aquinas Minnesota

Swarthmore College

Seton Hall University | Image Christina Montemurro Photography

University of Florida

Saginaw Valley State University Michigan

United States Naval Academy

Sonnet 116

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 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.

— William Shakespeare