"Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline,……" — David Ogilvy
"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 wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?."
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David Ogilvy
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