Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare, “Not marble nor the gilded monuments,” is about the ravages of time and immortalization of love. In this sonnet, Shakespeare claims that his poem will outlast monuments and will find praise until the Last Judgement. Through this sonnet, his lover would live eternally. Millay presents a slightly different idea in her sonnet “Love Is Not All.” She rejects the flowery notions encircling the conventional definition of love with practical arguments. Yet, she fails to keep her rationale as she does not devalue love in need of mental peace and physical satisfaction. There is an echo to Shakespeare’s idea of poetry as a manifestation of his love and memories, in the last lines of Millay’s sonnet. She describes how she would not sell her memory or the poem for food or money. In this way, she indirectly glorifies love as Shakespeare did in Sonnet 55.