I am to wait, though waiting so be hell. Sonnet 58.13

“I will not make a sonnet from Each little private martyrdom; Nor out of love left dead with time Construe a stanza or a…

— Joseph Auslander

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go…

— Tallulah Bankhead

My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

— Anonymous

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden…

— Robert Moog

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the…

— James Fenton

“What shall I say, what word, what cry recall, What god invoke, what charm, what amulet, To make a sonnet pay a hopeless debt,…

— Alfred B. Douglas

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just let me wait a little while longer, Under your window in the quite snow. Let me stand here and shiver, I’ll be stronger…

— Polly Shulman

“All's well that ends well.”

— Anonymous

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Afterlight Sonnet Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life. We need to paint the world…

— Abhijit Naskar

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the…

— Mario Benedetti

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I…

— Sharon Olds