Quote by N.M. Silber

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

“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

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

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Virginia Woolf

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

“No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.”

— Philip Pullman

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done…

— Raymond Chandler

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more…

— Dan Simmons

“Shakespeare = We all make his”

— Anonymous