“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their own; I may be straight, though… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason… — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded.… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the summit. How satisfying! How restful!… — virginia woolf Copy Share Image
There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“On city harp strings ‘neath cotton ball clouds, Pigeon to pigeon their stories they sing, Wafting flocks gather in soft, cooing crowds;… — Marie Helen Abramyan Copy Share Image
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Fidelity Above all to my love I'll be attentive First and always with care and so much That even when… — Vinícius de Moraes Copy Share Image
“Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
