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QuoteMemorizeAges 14–15 · The Moral Imagination
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare, 1609
Sonnet 18

The opening of the most famous of the sonnets. Memorize the full fourteen lines.

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