“For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love”
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About this quote
The speaker asks his beloved to be quiet and calls their love a business for angels, which was a faintly scandalous claim to make in a poem of the 1590s. It is the classic poem about love as something consecrated in private, and it is also, incidentally, about not explaining yourself.
Source: The Canonization