Days Quote by Oscar Wilde

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

— Oscar Wilde

“Christ, I was barely a dude anymore. Anytime now, I’d whip out paper that curled at the edges and start composing sonnets about the…

— Taryn Quinn

“O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose…

— William Shakespeare

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

“The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when…

— Rilke

“My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string.… —ELIZABETH…

— Margaret Atwood

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading.…

— Etgar Keret

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull?…

— David Ogilvy

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

— Robert Hass

“You know, you scare the hell out of me [...] I don't know, it's like, I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense.”

— M.L. Rio

“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions - you're…

— Abhijit Naskar

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…

— William Shakespear

“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

“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this…

— Edward Carpenter