After Quote by Marilyn Nelson Download Open image “After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.” — Marilyn Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare After Comes Easiest Easiest Find Footing Footing Sonnets Kind Sonnets Sonnets Comes You Your
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.” — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone,… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. —George… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“What is gentlest in love is love's violence. Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal. Love makes you suffer, as love makes you… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“When we lose contact, we see only hate, only injustice, a giant so great its shadow blocks our sun.” — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“The filth hissed at us when we venture out-- always in twos or threes, never alone-- seems less a language spoken than one spat… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with. — Deke Richards Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that… — Moses Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
