Form Quote by Steve Earle

“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

“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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

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

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

— Marilyn Nelson

“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

“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

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the…

— James Fenton

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to…

— Edward Hirsch

“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 welcome to…

— Abhijit Naskar

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

— Joyce Carol Oates