NEW DELHI: The five judges who cumulatively penned 493 pages to partially strike down Section 377 liberally interspersed their judgments with poetry and quotes from Shakespeare to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "I am what I am, so take me as I am".CJI Dipak Misra began with Goethe's quote and followed it with Arthur Schopenhauer's pronouncement, "No one can escape from their individuality." Justice R F Nariman described the emotional trauma experienced by celebrated author Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas in Victorian England, which found expression in Douglas's poem 'Two Loves'."'The love that dare not speak its name' is how the love that exists between samesex couples was described by Lord Douglas in the poem Two Loves," said Justice Nariman as he began his judgment.Justice Chandrachud referred to 'the ashes of the gay', which forms part of Leonard Cohen's song 'Democracy', "Democracy its coming through a hole in the air... from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming."Justice Chandrachud referred to Oscar Wilde's arrest in 1895 for "committing gross indecency with male persons". During Wilde's trial, the prosecutor, referring to homosexual love, asked him, "What is the love that dare not speak its name?" Wilde responded, "The love that dare not speak its name in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art, like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are. It is in this century so much misunderstood that it may be described as 'the love that dare not speak its name' and on that account of it I am placed where I am now. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. The world does not understand. The world mocks at it, and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it."The CJI said denial of self-expression was akin to inviting death as defining self was "the glorious form of individuality". He referred to one of the most famous quotes of Shakespeare, "What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."