Memorable Quote by Carol Ann Duffy

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

— Marilyn Nelson

So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas…

— Edward Hirsch

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

“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

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get…

— Italo Calvino

“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry,…

— Shelby Foote

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading.…

— Etgar Keret

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas…

— Sherman Alexie

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

— Denise Levertov

“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it slow. But…

— Abhijit Naskar