Shakespeare in Love

 The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonnetto, which means to play music or to make sounds. So sonnets should sound good; they should sound like songs, says Poet Laureate Emilio DeGrazia
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare has been printed on wedding programs, recited at weddings, and appeared on a popular TV show. It  has a timeless and meaningful message to couples. Four of those messages are highlighted below:

       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 not 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.

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This sonnet reminds me:
    1. to accept each other's imperfections
    2. to remain steady in your affection
          [love is  a lasting power and should shine through any difficulties (like a lighthouse or "mark" as
          it  was once called)]
     3. it should guide us  [In the seventh line, a nautical reference is made, alluding that love is much like the 
            North star (called Polaris) to sailors who are lost].
    4. that true love should last forever, 'tll death do us part

These four sentiments play loudly in my mind and heart.