Who is it that says most? which can say more...
Sonnet 84Who is it that says most, which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you-- In whose conf'ne immurèd is the store Which should example where your equal grew? Lean penury within that pen doth dwell That to his subject lends not some small glory. But he that writes of you, if he can tell That you are you, so dignifies his story. Let him but copy what in you is writ, Not making worse what nature made so clear, And such a counterpart shall fame his wit, Making his style admired everywhere. You to your beauteous blessings add a curse, Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse. Buy and Download...Click HERE
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No-one can say any more than this – that you are you. You contain all the goodness that it would take to make something as fantastic as you.
There’s not much point to any writing that doesn’t make its subject better in some small way, but anyone that writes about
you should be happy as long as they manage to tell the world what you are, just as you are: that itself will make the writing great. If they manage to describe you exactly, without mucking up what Nature made so wonderfully, they’ll be read and dmired by everyone.
You’re gifted in many ways, but you add a downside to them: your fondness of complements makes those very same complements unworthy.