Sonnet Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I… — Tallulah Bankhead
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. — Julie Burchill
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to… — A. R. Ammons
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. — H. L. Mencken
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and… — Aberjhani
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,… — Roy H. Williams
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I… — Peter O'Toole
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges… — Minor White
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth
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
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used… — Sharon Olds
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone. — Tom Morello
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I… — Aldous Huxley
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for… — John Donne
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous… — William Prynne
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware,… — Rollo May
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is… — Keith Devlin
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a… — Kenneth Patchen
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is… — Jack Prelutsky

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