Sonnet Quotes

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. Tallulah Bankhead
Life Alone Hate Water Three My Life Slick Phobias Would Mute Ditch Could Sonnet Make Bed Go Dull Up Get Which Them
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet! Alfred Enoch
Time Birthday Me Director Theatre First Seven Somehow Shakespeare Lead Had Sonnet Globe Because Doing Been Friends Did Artistic Dad Season By The Time
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! Cynthia Ozick
Matter Space Proof Shakespeare Small Sonnet Look Subject Subject Matter Any Profound
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures. Doug Aitken
Nature Travel Class Song Three Half Creation Defy Ability Minutes Something Structures Economic Perfect Sonnet Opera Short Pop Pop Song
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. Henry Austin Dobson
Poetry Sonnet Ode Intended Turned
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh. J. Michael Straczynski
Me You Enjoy Rules Abide Only Bear Only Difference Write Part Sonnet Like Within Limitations Fresh Always Brain Just Difference Story Fun Keeps Techniques Bring Playing
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet. James Fenton
You Try Poet Practice Must Objection Shall Proposal Write Sonnet Learn Real Order Thing
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. Philip Sidney
Love You Memory Sky Mind Live Earth Must Favour Poetry Poets Lift Never Sonnet Thus Look Up Itself Behalf Get Die Send Lacking Curse Want Cannot While Much Skill Epitaph Your
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. Rachel Cusk
Made Free Musical Liberation Release System Seeks Seems Constraint Self Sonnet True Undefined Learn True Self Very Often Want Wants Which Novel Why
Sonnet is about movement in a form. Seamus Heaney
About Sonnet Movement Form

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