Archive for May 5th, 2006

To keep or not to keep, that is the question

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies . . . .

Shakespeare, excerpt from Sonnet #1.