• sonnet 116 william shakespeare (1609)

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.

• untitled xq (_unknown date_)

she once asked me the name of my favourite poet and i replied

god

she laughed and played along and asked me which one of his works was my absolute favourite

i said it was the one where he wrote her into existence