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The Meaning of
“Love Looks Not
With The Eyes, But
With The Mind”
31 Jan 2018 share

Do you love Shakespeare but

have always wanted to
understand it a bit better?
Shakespeare is, and always
has been, a staple of English
literature – and probably
always will be.
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but

with the mind, and therefore is
winged Cupid painted blind.” (A
Midsummer Night’s Dream)

This means that it shouldn’t matter what a

person looks like, you love them for their
personality and what’s inside. The quote is
said in jealousy, in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, by Helena because Demetrius thinks
that Hermia is more beautiful than Helena
and has been swayed by her beauty. Helena
thinks that Demetrius should love her for
who she is and keep his promises to her
rather than loving Hermia for her beauty.

Love does not look with reason (with the

“eyes”) but with the imagination (“the mind”)
It is recognition that love is irrational

Things base and vile, holding no

quantity,
Love can transpose to form and
dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but
with the mind.
And therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.
Nor hath Love’s mind of any
judgment taste—
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy
haste.
And therefore is Love said to be a
child,
Because in choice he is so oft
beguiled.

The idea that love is irrational–that it “looks

not with the eyes but with the mind”–
underscores the play’s theme that to be in
love is to be in a state similar to a dream,
where normalcy is displaced by the fanciful
and the bizarre, that love, in fact, may be a
form of madness.

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