Status: Not Shakespeare.
Source: Unknown
This one first came up on Twitter, but googling for it shows the same pattern – many quote databases, many blog post titles and Myspace pages, all attributing the quote to Shakespeare … but nobody specifying where it comes from. Occasionally someone suggests that it came from Midsummer, but it doesn’t matter, as it doesn’t seem to have come from anything Shakespeare wrote.
However, I can’t find where it does come from. The closest I’ve discovered is this poem:
Love Don’t Ask “what Do You Do?”
Love Only Says “You Make My Heart To Beat !”“Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals.”
Love Don’t Ask “Why Are You Faraway?”
Love Only Says “You Are Always With Me !”
This passage shows up on a number of pages, that appear to be Pakistani in origin. It is always quoted the same, but never attributed to any source, just “a poem”. So I’m not sure if it’s one person who copied it in a number of places, or if I’m just losing something in the translation.
Anybody got any ideas?