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
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world… — William Shakespeare 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
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps… — Jessica Day George 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
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night… — William Shakespeare 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
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote 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
