My name is Melisa and I am an artist. I am not a successful poet or a Meryl Streep...yet. "The in between" is to discuss art and what it means to be an artist. Anyone who wishes to comment is welcome. The important stuff lies in the spaces between the BIG Stuff. Those long stretches of silence, the routine of everyday life is where life happens, where potentially profound art is born.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Juliet
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;
else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight.
Fain would I dwell on form- fain, fain deny
What I have spoke; but farewell compliment!
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say ‘Ay’;
And I will take thy word. Yet, if thou swear’st,
Thou may prove false. At lovers’ perjuries,
They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.
Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won,
I’ll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my havior light;
But trust me, gentleman, I’ll prove more true
Than those who have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But thou overheard’st, ere I was aware,
My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,Which the dark night hath so discovered. – Juliet, Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene II
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