Sonnet Quotes
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Sonnet Quotes & Sayings
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But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?
— Patrick Ness
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare
I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
— William Shakespeare
Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
— Firoozeh Dumas
When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milkon the table: it attracts the dead.
[sonnet 6] — Rainer Maria Rilke
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
— William Shakespeare
I am sonnets full of stardust within the meter of my skin.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.
— Robin Williams
But, love, hate on; for now I know thy mind.Those that can see, thou lov'st; and I am blind. — William Shakespeare
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)
— William Shakespeare
The worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains. end of Sonnet 74
— William Shakespeare
The seasons bring to life the living lyre
— Timothy Salter
Come gaze about aged churchyard and beholdThose vanish'd hours of lead and hours of gold. — Timothy Salter
I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.
— Anna Journey
In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.
— Akiko Busch
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
— William Allingham
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
— Ethel Mumford
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
— Henry Austin Dobson
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell.Sonnet 58.13 — William Shakespeare
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
— William Shakespeare
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
— Seamus Heaney
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
— Giacomo Casanova
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. — William Shakespeare
Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come and whip him down the street, gently home
— Donald Justice
You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.
— William Shakespeare
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. — William Shakespeare
The sonnet has been the one distinctive characteristic of love present throughout the years.
— James Marquess
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
— William Shakespeare
You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.
— Truth Devour
The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine.
— Walter Isaacson
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? - Sonnet LXV
— William Shakespeare
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
— Robert Frost
A Sonnet is amoment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
But thou art all my art, and dost advance As high as learning my rude ignorance. — William Shakespeare
I love you as one loves certain dark things - Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
— Cassandra Clare
To give yourself away keep yourself still,And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill. — William Shakespeare
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
— Lorne Michaels
And that's why I love you," she said, smiling. "Because occasionally, and quite unexpectedly, you sound like a sonnet.
— Scott Wilbanks
No, I am that I am, and they that levelAt my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121 — William Shakespeare
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
— William Wordsworth
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
— David Gelernter
Ere long this golden light shall pass and fadeExcept all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made. — Timothy Salter
[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
— Cynthia Ozick
