Beats Quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the…

— James Fenton

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost -…

— James Fenton

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

— Mason Cooley

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed…

— Anna Journey

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Sonnet 9 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green, And with those few art…

— Milton

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes…

— Jane Austen

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint" Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath…

— Federico García Lorca

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

— Steve Earle