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- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from… — Julie Burchill
- Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot… — 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… — 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… — Aberjhani
- In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Sharon Olds