At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Status: Not Shakespeare

Saw this one fly by on Twitter the other day, attributed to Shakespeare.  Luckily it’s an easy mistake to correct, as it is all over the net that the actual author was Plato, specifically in his dialogue The Banquet.

Here’s William Gerber writing about the topic from his book “Love, poetry and immortality : luminous insights of the world’s great thinkers”:

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