Romeo and Juliet

There is one thing I like about Shakespeare. It's the way he strings words together, and the way he sets up a scene. The prologue to Romeo and Juliet always gives me goosebumps, especially when the bard really puts some emotion behind it.

"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which but their children's end naught could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet