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Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments

  1. The first line of a sonnet by William Shakespeare . The poet is denying that anything can come between true lovers (that is, be an impediment to their love.)


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Her literary debut, “True Minds,” was filled with love poems to her husband, and took its name from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.”

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Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” — “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments” — is an excellent example.

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In The Tempest, the sacred marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda promises, at last, a marriage worth having – one that Shakespeare fantasised about years earlier in Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

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Among these poems are some of the most famously romantic lines in English literature, including, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments,” and, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds/admit impediments – that's what Shakespeare said in a sonnet.

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