Sonnet Quotes

71 Sonnet quotes by 60 unique authors

What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make… — Stefanie Schneider
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container. — Lorne Michaels
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. — Robert Frost
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the… — Gilbert Highet
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including… — Shelby Foote
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry.… — Diane Wakoski
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that… — Sherman Alexie
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. The… — Etgar Keret
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with… — C.S. Lewis
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter
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
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing… — James Fenton
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what… — J. Michael Straczynski
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological… — Dan Simmons
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with… — Sylvia Plath

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