Decolonial-studies Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Not sonnets, Naskar Sonnets (2883) I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

“I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is how they should reach…

— Pablo Neruda

“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it slow. But…

— Abhijit Naskar

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom