Sonnet Quotes

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She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
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, but… — Madeleine L'Engle
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you… — Vladimir Nabokov
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,… — Vladimir Nabokov
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away… — William Shakespeare
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You… — John Fante
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — William Shakespeare
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and… — Daniel Handler
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The… — Pablo Neruda
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and… — Jessica Day George
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing… — Pablo Neruda
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized,… — John Green

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