“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more? — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass 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
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
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde 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
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 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
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
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — Sherman Alexie 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 three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet.… — James Fenton 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.… — Pablo Neruda 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
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
“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
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
