Quote by John Green

“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends…

— John Green

“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general.…

— James Shapiro

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Shakespeare doesn't use flashbacks, and his characters are more likely to philosophize than to remember. (Margot Livesey)”

— Tin House Books

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children…

— Elizabeth Knox

“No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.”

— Virginia Woolf

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

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

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens