“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”

“William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.”

“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”

“William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?”

“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

“Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.”