Mediocre Quote by Giacomo Casanova

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes…

— Jane Austen

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint" Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath…

— Federico García Lorca

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

— Mason Cooley

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

— Oscar Wilde

“...I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of…

— Jane Austen

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the…

— James Fenton

“I reminded the reporter that sonnet means “little sound.” “Oh,” she said, and I could tell by the way her pen jumped in her…

— Carol Shields