poll now closed

[fsf_mod]

The poll to select themes for our new prompt table challenge is now closed, and though it was pretty close, the winner was... (drum roll) Shakespeare Quotes! I'll get to work on a table and should have a post up by the end of the week.

Also if you'd like to suggest any particular quotes you might want to see included, please comment here. I can't guarantee I'll use everyone's if there's a lot/they're not suitable/whatever but you guys will be the ones writing the prompts, so it would be great to get your input!

Thank you!

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Boy do I love Shakespeare

[phrenotobe]

I am glad to see Shakespeare up if only for the fact that there's a lot of him to meander through!
My favourite play is a tie between A Midsummer Night's Dream and 12th Night, with Romeo and Juliet in close second - although I find the latter two slightly more quotable. Perhaps long sentences are not the best for prompts meant for a thousand words at most, but I'll offer some up in any case.
I tried to put this behind a cut to be polite. I really tried. But it wouldn't go, so I'm afraid... it's all out here. I'm deeply sorry.

HIPPOLYTA:
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night/ Four nights will quickly dream away the time

BENVOLIO:
I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword.

EGEUS:
With duty and desire we follow you.

DUKE ORSINO:
Give me now leave to leave thee.

VIOLA:
Good madam, let me see your face.

HELENA:
Never did mockers waste more idle breath.

JULIET:
It is an honour that I dream not of.

BENVOLIO:
Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?

DEMETRIUS:
Do I entice you? do I speak you fair? / Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth?

OBERON:
Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.

VIOLA:
With adorations, fertile tears / With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.

BENVOLIO:
Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

ANTONIO:
If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.

NURSE:
Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.

ROMEO:
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough / Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

SEBASTIAN:
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes / With the memorials and the things of fame / That do renown this city.

LYSANDER:
I had no judgment when to her I swore.

Re: Boy do I love Shakespeare

[alphastarr]

>> "With adorations, fertile tears / With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire."

I like this quote a lot; seconding that one.

Re: Boy do I love Shakespeare

[fsf_mod]

Thank you so much, these are all gorgeous! I think my main problem will be struggling with what to pick, haha. :)

(And no worries on the cut - cuts don't work in comments as they're primarily designed to stop your reading list being swallowed whole by really long entries. A long comment is not a problem here, so no need to apologize!)