In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
“I am, for I am not (Sonnet 2539) I don't care what I am, I don't know what I am, I am,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I Am The Naskar (Sonnet 2100) I am the Naskar, and I bridge people. Unlike religious salesmen, I don't offer you a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“My Cosmic Soldiers (The Sonnet) Bloodline is of no consequence, We gotta pass on galvanizing ideas. I may quite easily die without… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Naskar is when Naskar is not (Sonnet 2550) Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How can I compare such a thing Not a song could explain this love Leave me now and it will forever sting… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Sonnet 9 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green, And with those… — Milton Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I’ll never be able to give you a sonnet. I may be a songwriter, but the iambic pentameter thing throws me off.… — Michele Hauf Copy Share Image
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Sonnet 1019 Time is illusion, Only love is real. And if love is unreal, It's worth more than all things factual. Life… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Love is Simple (The Sonnet) Truth is simple, Lies are complex. Light is simple, Darkness is complex. Honesty is simple, Deceit is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another,… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Perhaps none of us assumes romantic love to be a birthright. Yet the confidence it will come surely admits of degrees. Growing… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I heard there was a battle, between a pen and a sword. Between a few deathly strikes, and one simple word The… — Majutsu-Shi Copy Share Image
![“Sonnet 9 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the Hill of heav'nly Truth, The better part with Mary, and with Ruth, [ 5 ] Chosen thou hast, and they that overween, And at thy growing vertues…” quote by Milton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b7/milton-53599_sonnet_sonnet-9-lady-that-in-the-prime-of-earli_2846120.jpg)
