{"id":1459,"date":"2007-04-24T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/the-poet-seers\/shakespeare\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:41:44","slug":"shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=1459","title":{"rendered":"William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>Alas! certainty dare not come to unveil<\/p>\n<p>His life genuine.<\/p>\n<p>The Man universal abides in mystery&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Stupendous ruin.<\/p>\n<p>But the huge oblivion sadly fails to fell<\/p>\n<p>His action-tree.<\/p>\n<p>The ocean-pride of English souls ever<\/p>\n<p>In him we see.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <i>Philosopher-Thinkers: The Power-Towers Of The Mind And Poet-Seers: The Fragrance-Hours Of The Heart In The West<\/i> by <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"Heading\">Quotes by Shakespeare<\/h2>\n<p class=\"Heading\">&nbsp;&#8220;To be or not to be, &#8211;that is the question:&#8211;<br \/>\nWhether &#8217;tis nobler in the mind to suffer<br \/>\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune<br \/>\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,<br \/>\nAnd by opposing end them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Heading\">From: Hamlet<\/p>\n<p class=\"Heading\">~<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the world&#8217;s a stage,<br \/>\nAnd all the men and women merely players.<br \/>\nThey have their exits and their entrances,<br \/>\nAnd one man in his time plays many parts,<br \/>\nHis acts being seven ages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;From <i>As You Like It<\/i> (II, vii, 139-143)<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If music be the food of love, play on;<br \/>\nGive me excess of it, that, surfeiting,<br \/>\nThe appetite may sicken, and so die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;From <i>Twelfth Night<\/i> (I, i,1-3)<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To sleep, perchance to dream-<br \/>\nay, there&#8217;s the rub.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;From <i>Hamlet<\/i>(III, i, 65-68)<\/p>\n<p>More:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetseers.org\/the_poetseers\/william_shakespeare\">Quotes and poems by&nbsp;Shakespeare<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1428,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1459","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1459\/revisions\/3892"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}