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.

——William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

    以下是我最喜欢的译文，以致多年后仍能倒背如流，却忘了是谁的译文：

我绝不承认两颗真心的结合
会有任何障碍；爱算不得真爱，
若是一看见人家改变便转舵，
或者一看见人家转弯便离开。
哦，决不！爱是亘古长明的塔灯，
它定睛望着风暴却兀不为动；
爱又是指引迷舟的一颗恒星，
你可量它多高，它所值却无穷。
爱不受时光的播弄，尽管红颜
和皓齿难免遭受时光的毒手；
爱并不因瞬息的改变而改变，
它巍然矗立直到末日的尽头。
　　我这话若说错，并被证明不确，
　　就算我没写诗，也没人真爱过。

    当我未懂得爱时，已经爱上了这首关于爱的诗，爱上了他——莎士比亚。