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
“You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“The tracks of life are long and winding, brief the encounters of love and sin, and bitter-dry the taste of finding that… — Pierre Sóter Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The quickest way to master that Shakespearean sonnet, in other words, is to spend the first third of your time memorizing it… — Anonymous 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
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
“I knew your plan before you made it,” Eldora proclaimed, tossing her Wert from hand to hand… “You are somewhat of a… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez 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
“William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife… — Marc Norman 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
“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
“Afterlight Sonnet Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life. We need to paint… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I reminded the reporter that sonnet means “little sound.” “Oh,” she said, and I could tell by the way her pen jumped… — Carol Shields 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
“I am for I think not (Sonnet 2674) Every country needs just one person to embody the best of humanity - but… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose," she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night” Shakespeare -- Sonnet… — J.T. Hunter Copy Share Image
“[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they… — Minor White Copy Share Image
“In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
“has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“And after my wanderings, I hope I will arrive where love is not alone, and hate is not alive. in sonnet One… — Pierre Sóter Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
His sonnet to me:Of u no what love is you will read this love is meaningful and wanerful this is fourteen line… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Oh, Philippe, thou are a rogue." "So I have been told. Presumably because I am innocent of the slightest indiscretion. Curious. No… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“I will not make a sonnet from Each little private martyrdom; Nor out of love left dead with time Construe a stanza… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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