Letters Quote by Margaret Atwood

“I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“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 hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my…

— Pat Conroy

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

— Dorothy Fields

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

— Steve Earle

“Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand,…

— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any…

— Mary Russell Mitford

“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it slow. But…

— Abhijit Naskar