Valentine's day, rooted as it is in violence, invites a revisiting of the old Veronese feud.
Juliet:
My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy.
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v [138-141]
Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet, Suite no. 2, the Montagues and the Capulets, opening
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, February 2, 2008