Sonnets Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
— Oscar Wilde
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31 authors contributed a total of 34 Sonnets Quotes, led by these top contributors: