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Thierry Heles
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The Next Leap
Károly Szántó: Hungary will be the blueprint for university funds in Eastern Europe
Károly Szántó, the COO of Óbuda University's venture fund and studio OUVC, has a plan to supercharge investment activities in Central and Eastern Europe.
2025-05-13
42 min
The Next Leap
Gavin Clark, Mark Mann: Here's how to build a shared TTO
Gavin Clark and Mark Mann share how they've built a tech transfer office shared by six UK universities focused on social sciences and creative industries.
2025-05-06
37 min
The Next Leap
Panel: What's next for quantum technologies?
What does the future hold for quantum technologies? A panel of experts tackled the challenges at a recent Foresight Live event.
2025-04-29
48 min
The Next Leap
Nicky Dibben: People buy products, not technology
Nicky Dibben discusses how marketing strategy is everything that comes between you and your customer, and not simply “fluffy” social media.
2025-04-15
44 min
The Next Leap
Winsome Cheung: Startups, here's what to know when negotiating with big pharma
Winsome Cheung is a partner at Covington who helps biotech startups and big pharma negotiate deals. Here, she shares what to look out for in contracts.
2025-04-08
38 min
The Next Leap
Stuart Wilkinson: What does a sweet shop have to do with spinouts?
The impact of university research commercialisation can go far beyond the initial spinout, says Knowledge Exchange UK's chief executive Stuart Wilkinson.
2025-04-01
34 min
The Next Leap
Erik Iverson, Mike Partsch: Industry doesn't want newly hatched ideas
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has been around for 100 years and its leadership has novel ideas about how to keep its edge.
2025-03-25
47 min
The Next Leap
Kevin Walters: Vitamin D-fortified food changed universities forever
In 1925, the University of Wisconsin-Madison established the first-ever tech transfer office. And it all began with the discovery of vitamins.
2025-03-18
46 min
The Next Leap
Trailer
How does university research become a real-world product like vitamin D-fortified oatmeal, warfarin or Gatorade? The Next Leap is an interview show with the experts responsible for this process — from tech transfer practitioners to founders to lawyers, and others. Subscribe now for the first episode, dropping Tuesday, 18 March.
2025-03-13
04 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025
Is 2025 the year that university technology transfer will see a big boost? It certainly looks promising, particularly in the UK, where a government-led spinout review has encouraged universities to lower equity in spinouts to 25%. Most universities in the UK have adopted the guidelines. The debate over equity stakes is a discussion that Michele Barbour, associate pro vice-chancellor for enterprise and innovation at the University of Bristol, says she actually welcomed because it gave tech transfer a visibility that had so far lacked. UK academic institutions will also have access to a £40m ($50m) pot for proof-of-concept funding. A...
2024-12-13
27 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Asia lags behind other regions for university venture funds
Just over a fifth of academic institutions in Asia have access to a dedicated university venture fund, with a third of all funds found in Japan — that’s the finding of GUV’s latest regional analysis published last week. It puts Asian universities behind those in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, though the Japanese ecosystem deserves recognition for being very mature: out of 13 universities on the list, 11 have at least one fund. The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners is also a rare example of a fund that invests overseas, rather than just in spinouts or the...
2024-10-25
14 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
10 Year Analysis
We’re kicking off the new season with something a bit different: senior editor Maija Palmer asks regular host Thierry Heles the questions to talk about his recently published analysis looking at 10 years’ worth of spinout deals. From a collapse in UK funding since Brexit to the rise of Japan, and from the continued strength of life sciences to an increased focus on climatetech, the data tells a lot of fascinating stories. You can find the full article, for free, with lots of charts on our website now. We’ll be back w...
2023-02-17
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
George Baxter: Edinburgh Innovations
Thierry Heles talks to George Baxter, chief executive of Edinburgh Innovations about the strengths of the Scottish ecosystem, leading a tech transfer office that also handles student startups and the importance of public funding (and giving the taxpayer their money’s worth). Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2021-01-29
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Larry Loev: Ariel Scientific Innovations
Thierry Heles talks to Larry Loev, chief executive of Ariel Scientific Innovations, about leading a tech transfer office for a young but ambitious university, the opportunities of tech transfer in a country famed for its startup ecosystem and how to bring innovation to oenology. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2021-01-22
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Mike Zimmerman: Main Sequence Ventures
Thierry Heles talks to Mike Zimmerman, partner at Main Sequence Ventures, about improving commercialisation activities in Australia, the importance of deep tech over the next few decades and developing a plant-based burger in partnership with Hungry Jack’s at breakneck speed. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2021-01-15
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Kelly Sexton: University of Michigan
Thierry Heles talks to Kelly Sexton, Associate Vice President for Research – Technology Transfer and Innovation Partnerships at University of Michigan. In this role, she supports and encourages university-wide programs for intellectual property development, innovation, and engagement with business and venture communities in the region, across the nation, and around the globe. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2021-01-08
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Alastair Hick: Monash Innovation
Thierry Heles talks to Alastair Hick, senior director at Monash Innovation. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2021-01-01
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Moray Wright: Parkwalk Advisors
Thierry Heles talks to Moray Wright, co-founder and chief executive of Parkwalk Advisors, the fund management subsidiary of commercialisation firm IP Group. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-12-25
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Alicia Löffler: Northwestern University
Thierry Heles talks to Alicia Löffler, associate provost for Innovation & New Ventures, associate vice president for Research and executive director, INVO, Center for Translational Innovation (CTI) at Northwestern University. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-12-18
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Nichole Mercier: Washington University in St Louis
Thierry Heles talks to Nichole Mercier, assistant vice-chancellor and managing director for technology transfer at Washington University in St Louis, about increasing engagement from female researchers, the impact of the pandemic on women faculty with children and fostering serial entrepreneurs that choose to stay in the local ecosystem. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-12-11
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Tony Raven: Cambridge Enterprise
Thierry Heles talks to Tony Raven, chief executive of University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm Cambridge Enterprise, about abandoning long-held beliefs in the workplace, his help in launching both IP Group and Cambridge Innovation Capital and the importance of running a tech transfer operation worthy of the Cambridge brand. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-12-04
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Orin Herskowitz: Columbia University
Thierry Heles talks to Orin Herskowitz, senior vice-president of intellectual property and tech transfer for Columbia University, and executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures, about New York’s accelerators, the upsides of Zoom meetings and why having a humanities degree is the perfect background for heading a tech transfer office. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-11-27
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Tony Armstrong: IU Ventures
Thierry Heles talks to Tony Armstrong, president and chief executive of IU Ventures, about how the organisation supports Indiana University spinouts and startups. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-11-20
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Lesley Millar-Nicholson: MIT’s Technology Licensing Office
Thierry Heles talks to Lesley Millar-Nicholson, director of MIT’s Technology Licensing Office and Catalysts, about a bumper year despite the pandemic. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-11-13
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Peter Devine: Uniseed
Thierry Heles talks to Peter Devine about Uniseed, Australia’s longest running venture fund that operates at the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney & New South Wales, and the CSIRO. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-11-06
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Jim Wilkinson: Oxford Sciences Innovation
Thierry Heles talks to Jim Wilkinson of Oxford Sciences Innovation about the company and how they invest. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-10-30
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Darek DeFreece: UC Berkeley
Thierry Heles talks to Darek DeFreece, who at the time of recording was the managing director of Berkeley Academic Ventures. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-10-23
00 min
Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles
Tom Vanhoutte: Imec.xpand
Thierry Heles talks to Tom Vanhoutte from Imec.xpand about the Belgian venture fund’s approach of investing huge sums at an early stage. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn. Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
2020-10-16
00 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
The little Love-god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand The fairest votary took up that fire Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d; And so the general of hot desire Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d. This brand she quenched in a cool well by, Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual, Growing a bath and healthful remedy For men diseased; but I, m...
2014-04-22
46 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep. A maid of Dian’s this advantage found, And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep In a cold valley-fountain of that ground, Which borrowed from this holy fire of love A dateless lively heat, still to endure, And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure. But at my mistress’ eye love’s brand new-fired, The boy for trial needs would touch my breast. I sick withal the help of bath desired, And thither hied...
2014-04-15
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn, But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing, In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn, In vowing new hate after new love bearing. But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee, When I break twenty? I am perjured most, For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee, And all my honest faith in thee is lost. For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness, Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,
2014-04-10
23 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove. For, thou betraying me, I do betray My nobler part to my gross body’s treason; My soul doth tell my body that he may Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason, But rising at thy name doth point out thee As his triumphant prize; proud of this pride, He is contented thy poor dr...
2014-04-08
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
O, from what power hast thou this powerful might With insufficiency my heart to sway, To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, That in the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantize of skill That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds? Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate? O, though...
2014-04-03
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not, When I against myself with thee partake? Do I not think on thee, when I forgot Am of myself, all tyrant for thy sake? Who hateth thee that I do call my friend? On whom frown’st thou that I do fawn upon? Nay, if thou lour’st on me, do I not spend Revenge upon myself with present moan? What merit do I in myself respect That is so proud thy service to despise, When all my best doth wors...
2014-04-01
23 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 148: O me! What eyes hath love put in my head
O me! What eyes hath love put in my head, Which have no correspondence with true sight! Or if they have, where is my judgement fled, That censures falsely what they see aright? If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, What means the world to say it is not so? If it be not, then love doth well denote, Love’s eye is not so true as all men’s ‘No’. How can it? O, how can love’s eye be true, That is so vexed with watching and with t...
2014-03-27
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th’uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I, desperate, now approve Desire is death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And frantic mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are, At random from the truth vainly expr...
2014-03-25
28 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Feeding these rebel pow’rs that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body’s end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servants’ loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed...
2014-03-20
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
Those lips that Love’s own hand did make Breathed forth the sound that said “I hate” To me that languished for her sake. But when she saw my woeful state, Straight in her heart did mercy come, Chiding that tongue that, ever sweet, Was used in giving gentle doom, And taught it thus anew to greet: “I hate” she altered with an end That followed it as gentle day Doth follow night, who like a fiend From heaven to hell is flown away. “I hate” from hate away she...
2014-03-18
21 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair; The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride. And whether that my angel be turned fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell, But being both from me, both to each friend, I...
2014-03-13
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch
Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch One of her feathered creatures broke away, Sets down her babe and makes a swift dispatch In pursuit of the thing she would have stay, Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase, Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent To follow that which flies before her face, Not prizing her poor infant’s discontent: So runn’st thou after that which flies from thee, Whilst I, thy babe, chase thee afar behind; But if thou catch thy hope, turn...
2014-03-11
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving. O but with mine compare thou thine own state, And thou shalt find it merits not reproving, Or if it do, not from those lips of thine, That have profaned their scarlet ornaments And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine, Robbed others’ beds’ revénues of their rents. Be it lawful I love thee as thou lov’st those Whom thine eyes woo as mine impórtune thee; Root pity in...
2014-03-06
27 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note, But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote. Nor are mine ears with thy tongue’s tune delighted, Nor tender feeling to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast with thee alone; But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a...
2014-03-04
21 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press
Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity-wanting pain. If I might teach thee wit: Better it were, Though not to love, yet love to tell me so, As testy sick men, when their deaths be near, No news but health from their physicians know. For if I should despair I should grow mad, And in my madness might speak ill of thee; Now this ill-wresting world is...
2014-02-27
29 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 139: O call not me to justify the wrong
O call not me to justify the wrong That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue; Use power with power and slay me not by art. Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in my sight, Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside. What need’st thou wound with cunning when thy might Is more than my o’er-press’d defense can bide? Let me excuse thee: ah, my love well knows Her pretty looks have been mine enemies, And theref...
2014-02-25
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutored youth, Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue, On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O love’s best habit is in seem...
2014-02-20
16 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold and see not what they see? They know what beauty is, see where it lies, Yet what the best is take the worst to be. If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks, Be anchored in the bay where all men ride, Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forgèd hooks, Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied? Why should my heart think that a several plot Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place? Or mi...
2014-02-18
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
If thy soul check thee that I come so near, Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will, And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there; Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil. Will will fulfil the treasure of thy love, Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one; In things of great receipt with ease we prove Among a number one is reckoned none. Then in the number let me pass untold, Though in thy store’s account I one must be; For no...
2014-02-13
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will, And Will to boot, and Will in overplus; More than enough am I that vex thee still, To thy sweet will making addition thus. Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine? Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine? The sea, all water, yet receives rain still, And in abundance addeth to his store; So thou, being rich in Will, add to thy Will
2014-02-11
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine
So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I myself am mortgaged to thy will, Myself I’ll forfeit, so that other mine Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still: But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free, For thou art covetous, and he is kind; He learned but surety-like to write for me Under that bond that him as fast doth bind. The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take, Thou usurer that put’st forth all to use, And sue a friend came...
2014-02-06
27 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is’t not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet’st friend must be? Me from my self thy cruel eye hath taken, And my next self thou harder hast engrossed; Of him, my self, and thee I am forsaken, A torment thrice threefold thus to be crossed. Prison my heart in thy steel bosom’s ward, But then my friend’s heart let my poor heart bail;
2014-02-04
27 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even Doth half that glory to the sober west As those two mourning eyes become thy face. O let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee...
2014-01-30
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou knowst, to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet in good faith some say, that thee behold, Thy face hath not the power to make love groan; To say they err, I dare not be so bold, Although I swear it to myself alone; And to be sure that is not false, I swear A thousand groans but thinking on thy face; One on...
2014-01-28
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; ...
2014-01-23
21 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and till action, lust Is perjur’d, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallow’d bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof,— and prov’d, a very woe; Before, a joy prop...
2014-01-21
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play’st
How oft when thou, my music, music play’st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway’st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap, To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap, At the wood’s boldness by thee blushing stand! To be so tickled, they would change their state And situation with those dancing chips, O’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
2014-01-16
21 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name; But now is black beauty’s successive heir, And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: For since each hand hath put on Nature’s power, Fairing the foul with art’s false borrowed face, Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. Therefore my mistress’ eyes are raven black, Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem At such who, not born fair, no b...
2014-01-14
30 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time’s fickle glass, his sickle, hour; Who hast by waning grown, and therein show’st Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow’st. If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack, As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back, She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill. Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure! She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure: Her audit (though delayed) answer...
2014-01-09
26 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy
Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, Which proves more short than waste or ruining? Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour Lose all and more by paying too much rent For compound sweet; forgoing simple savour, Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent? No; let me be obsequious in thy heart, And take thou my oblation, poor but free, Which is not mix’d with seconds, knows no art, But mutual render, only...
2014-01-07
29 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state
If my dear love were but the child of state, It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfather’d, As subject to Time’s love or Time’s hate, Weeds amoung weeds, or flowers with flowers gather’d. No, it was builded far from accident; It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls Under the blow of thralled discontent, Whereto th’inviting time our fashion calls: It fears not policy, that heretic, Which works on leases of short number’d hours, But all alone stands hugely politic, That it nor grows w...
2014-01-02
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 123: No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not wond’ring at the present nor the past, For thy records and what we see do...
2013-12-31
16 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Full character’d with lasting memory, Which shall above that idle rank remain, Beyond all date; even to eternity: Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart Have faculty by nature to subsist; Till each to raz’d oblivion yield his part Of thee, thy record never can be miss’d. That poor retention could not so much hold, Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score; Therefore to give them from me was I bold, To trust...
2013-12-26
30 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 121: ‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d
‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem’d Not by our feeling, but by others’ seeing: For why should others’ false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good? No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own: I may be straight though they themselves...
2013-12-24
26 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammer’d steel. For if you were by my unkindness shaken, As I by yours, you’ve pass’d a hell of time; And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken To weigh how once I suffer’d in your crime. O, that our night of woe might have remember’d My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits, And soon t...
2013-12-19
23 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within, Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears, Still losing when I saw myself to win! What wretched errors hath my heart committed, Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never! How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted, In the distraction of this madding fever, O benefit of ill, now I find true, That better is by evil still made better, And ruin’d love, when it is built anew,
2013-12-17
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen
Like as, to make our appetites more keen, With eager compounds we our palate urge, As, to prevent our maladies unseen, We sicken to shun sickness when we purge; Even so, being full or your ne’er-cloying sweetness, To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding; And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness To be diseas’d, ere that there was true needing. Thus policy in love, to anticipate The ills that were not, grew to faults assur’d, And brought to medicine a healthful state, Which...
2013-12-12
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all, Wherein I should your great deserts repay, Forgot upon your dearest love to call, Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day; That I have frequent been with unknown minds, And given to time your own dear-purchas’d right; That I have hoisted sail to all the winds Which should transport me farthest from your sight. Book both my wilfulness and errors down, And on just proof surmise, accumulate; Bring me within the level of your frown, But shoot no...
2013-12-10
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever-fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears...
2013-12-05
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those that said I could not love you dearer: Yet then my judgment knew no reason why My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer. But reckoning Time, whose million’d accidents Creep in ‘twixt vows, and change decrees of kings, Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp’st intents, Divert strong minds to the course of altering things; Alas! why, fearing of Time’s tyranny, Might I not then say, ‘Now I love you best,’ When I was certain o’er incerta...
2013-12-03
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you
Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you, Drink up the monarch’s plague, this flattery? Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true, And that your love taught it this alchemy, To make of monsters and things indigest Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble, Creating every bad a perfect best, As fast as objects to his beams assemble? O! ’tis the first, ’tis flattery in my seeing, And my great mind most kingly drinks it up: Mine eye well knows what with his gust is ‘greeing...
2013-11-28
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to go about Doth part his function and is partly blind, Seems seeing, but effectually is out; For it no form delivers to the heart Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch: Of his quick objects hath the mind no part, Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch; For if it see the rud’st or gentlest sight, The most sweet favour or deformed’st creature, The mountain or the...
2013-11-26
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Your love and pity doth the impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow? You are my all-the-world, and I must strive To know my shames and praises from your tongue; None else to me, nor I to none alive, That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong. In so profound abysm I throw all care Of others’ voices, that my adder’s sense To critic and to flatte...
2013-11-21
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand: Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed; Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink Potions of eisell ‘gainst my strong infection; No bitterness that I will bitter think, Nor doub...
2013-11-19
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 110: Alas! ’tis true, I have gone here and there
Alas! ’tis true, I have gone here and there, And made my self a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is, that I have looked on truth Askance and strangely; but, by all above, These blenches gave my heart another youth, And worse essays proved thee my best of love. Now all is done, have what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof, to try an...
2013-11-14
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart
O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify, As easy might I from my self depart As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie: That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels, I return again; Just to the time, not with the time exchanged, So that myself bring water for my stain. Never believe though in my nature reigned, All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, That it could so preposterously be...
2013-11-12
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 108: What’s in the brain that ink may character
What’s in the brain that ink may character, Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit? What’s new to speak, what now to register, That may express my love, or thy dear merit? Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine, I must each day say o’er the very same; Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, Even as when first I hallowed thy fair name. So that eternal love in love’s fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age, Nor give...
2013-11-07
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time, My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I’ll live in this poor rhyme,
2013-11-05
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express’d Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And for they looked but with divining eyes, They had not...
2013-10-31
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so. Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind, Still constant in a wondrous excellence; Therefore my verse to constancy confined, One thing expressing, leaves out difference. Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument, Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
2013-10-29
17 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold, Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’d, In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn’d, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv’d; So your sweet hue...
2013-10-24
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having such a scope to show her pride, The argument all bare is of more worth Than when it hath my added praise beside! O! blame me not, if I no more can write! Look in your glass, and there appears a face That over-goes my blunt invention quite, Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace. Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well? For to no other pass my verses tend ...
2013-10-22
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear; That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming, The owner’s tongue doth publish every where. Our love was new, and then but in the spring, When I was wont to greet it with my lays; As Philomel in summer’s front doth sing, And stops his pipe in growth of riper days: Not that the summer is less pleasant now Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night, But that wild...
2013-10-18
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
O truant Muse what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed? Both truth and beauty on my love depends; So dost thou too, and therein dignified. Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say, ‘Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixed; Beauty no pencil, beauty’s truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermixed’? Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee To make him much outlive a gilded tomb And to b...
2013-10-15
24 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? Spend’st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light? Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem In gentle numbers time so idly spent; Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem And gives thy pen both skill and argument. Rise, resty Muse, my love’s sweet face survey, If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay...
2013-10-10
29 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 099: The forward violet thus did I chide
The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love’s breath? Thy purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed. The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol’n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol’n of both And to his robbery had anne...
2013-10-08
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 098: From you have I been absent in the spring
From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odor and in hue Could make me any summer’s story tell. Or from their proud lap pluck them while they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They...
2013-10-03
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 097: How like a winter hath my absence been
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December’s bareness every where! And yet this time removed was summer’s time The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, Like widow’d wombs after their lords’ decease: Yet this abundant issue seem’d to me But hope of orphans and unfather’d fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, t...
2013-10-01
21 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 096: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport; Both grace and faults are lov’d of more and less: Thou mak’st faults graces that to thee resort. As on the finger of a throned queen The basest jewel will be well esteem’d, So are those errors that in thee are seen To truths translated, and for true things deem’d. How many lambs might the stern wolf betray, If like a lamb he could his looks translate! How many gaz...
2013-09-26
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name! O! in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose. That tongue that tells the story of thy days, Making lascivious comments on thy sport, Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise; Naming thy name blesses an ill report. O! what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty’s veil doth cover every blot And al...
2013-09-24
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 094: They that have power to hurt and will do none
They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces And husband nature’s riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest...
2013-09-19
18 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 093: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love’s face May still seem love to me, though altered new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I cannot know thy change. In many’s looks, the false heart’s history Is writ in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange. But heaven in thy creation did decree That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell; Whate’er thy thoughts, or thy h...
2013-09-17
19 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 092: But do thy worst to steal thyself away
But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine, And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end. I see a better state of me belongs Than that which on my humour doth depend; Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind, Since that my life on the revolt doth lie. O, what a...
2013-09-12
23 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 091: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies’ force, Some in their garments though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it finds a joy above the rest: But these particulars are not my measure, All these I better in one general best. Thy love is better than high birth to me, Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ cost, Of more delight than hawks and horses be;
2013-09-10
17 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 090: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the on...
2013-09-05
17 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 089: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, And I will comment upon that offence: Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt, Against thy reasons making no defence. Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill, To set a form upon desired change, As I’ll myself disgrace; knowing thy will, I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange; Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell, Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong, An...
2013-09-03
22 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 088: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light, And place my merit in the eye of scorn, Upon thy side, against myself I’ll fight, And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn. With mine own weakness being best acquainted, Upon thy part I can set down a story Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted; That thou in losing me shalt win much glory: And I by this will be a gainer too; For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, The injuries that to myself I do...
2013-08-29
17 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 087: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know’st thy estimate, The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thy self thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing, Or me to whom thou gav’st it else mistaking; So thy grea...
2013-08-27
25 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 086: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished. He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors of my silence cannot boast; I was...
2013-08-22
20 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 085: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise richly compiled, Reserve thy character with golden quill, And precious phrase by all the Muses filed. I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words, And like unlettered clerk still cry ‘Amen’ To every hymn that able spirit affords, In polished form of well-refined pen. Hearing you praised, I say tis so, ’tis true,’ And to the most of praise add something more; But that is in my thought, whose love to you, Though words come hin...
2013-08-20
14 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 084: Who is it that says most, which can say more
Who is it that says most, which can say more, Than this rich praise, that you alone are you, In whose confine immured 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...
2013-08-15
15 min
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 083: I never saw that you did painting need
I never saw that you did painting need, And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed The barren tender of a poet’s debt: And therefore have I slept in your report, That you yourself, being extant, well might show How far a modern quill doth come too short, Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow. This silence for my sin you did impute, Which shall be most my glory being dumb; For I impair not beauty being mu...
2013-08-13
21 min