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Valentine's Day Love Poems

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The Dead Husks of Once Living Thoughts

Alex Castellanos: Shakespeare's love poems are obviously love poems to their beloved. But in a way, it seems like you're leading me to think that these love poems are away for Shakespeare to express his love to future readers. He says the written poem is a kind of dead husk, a relic. There is an ember there because there was a young person or an alive person long before this 500 years after their death or whatever that somehow preserved in it. And if you can follow this, you can sense that there's still a little bit of me left behind to this,. Whether that's true or not is another question. It's very... Why do lovers come together and

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