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
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
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
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will… — John Donne Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Sonnet 1019 Time is illusion, Only love is real. And if love is unreal, It's worth more than all things factual. Life… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Will and Wheel (The Sonnet) Where there is a will, there is a wheel. Where there is intent, there is upliftment. Where… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Just let me wait a little while longer, Under your window in the quite snow. Let me stand here and shiver, I’ll… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 20 The more you break me, the stronger I become. The more you hate me, the gentler I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 7 Give, give and give again, To give without reserve is living. Fall, fall and fall again, To fall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938) Books are my jewellery, memories are my assets. Languages are my liquor, cultures are my cocaine.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Love is Simple (The Sonnet) Truth is simple, Lies are complex. Light is simple, Darkness is complex. Honesty is simple, Deceit is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another,… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body;… — Kenneth Patchen 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
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
“I’ll never be able to give you a sonnet. I may be a songwriter, but the iambic pentameter thing throws me off.… — Michele Hauf Copy Share Image
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron 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 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
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
“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
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
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I hit on something I believe when I wrote that I meant to be a Poet and a Poem. It may be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Naskar is when Naskar is not (Sonnet 2550) Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How can I compare such a thing Not a song could explain this love Leave me now and it will forever sting… — Jade Copy Share Image
