Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“First thousand were an accident, Second thousand, a promise. Answer to traditional animosity, Antidote to doting prejudice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Christ, I was barely a dude anymore. Anytime now, I’d whip out paper that curled at the edges and start composing sonnets… — Taryn Quinn Copy Share Image
“The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The… — Rilke 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
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
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
“My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy 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
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
“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
“Good God, Enrique was writing poetry to her? Yes, and why hadn’t he thought of poetry? Besides the obvious reason of his… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering… — William Shakespeare 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 repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespear 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
“I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is how they… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but… — Edward Carpenter 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
“Shakespeare had nothing on you." "Would you rather I wrote you sonnets or made you see God?” — N.M. Silber Copy Share Image
“Again? Honestly, do you guys think she’s hiding in Shakespeare’s Sonnets?” - Tina Lewis” — R.J. Morse Copy Share Image
“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy 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
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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