“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
O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley 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
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 idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle 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
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
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
“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
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
“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 human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Be The Change, Not The Caption (Sonnet) Do good, don't delegate. Go vital, not viral. Dare the deed, not drama. Be the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I Am The Genre (Sonnet 2629) There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Disquite Sonnet I wish that I could find the words to tell You were it hurts; nothing breaking my skin Slices whispering… — Kathy Trithardt Copy Share Image
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,… — William Shakespeare 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
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — John Green 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
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
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
“Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.” — William 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 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
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
