Born Quote by James Fenton

“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.”

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“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 tracks of life are long and winding, brief the encounters of love and sin, and bitter-dry the taste of finding that someone will…

— Pierre Sóter

“My Cosmic Soldiers (The Sonnet) Bloodline is of no consequence, We gotta pass on galvanizing ideas. I may quite easily die without heir, World…

— Abhijit Naskar

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

— Anonymous

“[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)”

— Petrarch

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

— Mason Cooley

“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in translations, but…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're welcome to…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is how they should reach…

— Pablo Neruda

“I will not make a sonnet from Each little private martyrdom; Nor out of love left dead with time Construe a stanza or a…

— Joseph Auslander

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of…

— Ferdowsi