Sonnets Quotes

34 Sonnets quotes by 31 unique authors

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
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
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
I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and… — Pablo Neruda
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored… — Italo Calvino
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest. — Marilyn Nelson
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the… — William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And… — William Shakespeare
Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth. Tell me you… — Unknown Author
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has… — Thom Gunn

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