haiku-year, poetry

”What is your substance”


As shadows show poor
imitation; as beauty, truth —
so you’re the substance.1

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Image: Copper engraving of William Shakespear by Martin Droeshout 1623 with a facsimile of William Shakespeare’s signature.

  1. What is your substance, whereof are you made,— Sonnet LIII – William Shakespeare ↩
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