Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Hard Sentimental Sonnet Surprise
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.” — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness. — Irving Layton 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
“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 Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost -… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile, then up… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
