Quotes of: Sonnet Keyword

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

Love is a clash of lightnings

100 Love Sonnets

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

100 Love Sonnets

De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al mío y que ellos en el sueño derroten las tinieblas

100 Love Sonnets

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

The Complete Sonnets and Poems

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

100 Love Sonnets

He dormido contigo y al despertar tu boca salida de tu sueño me dio el sabor de tierra, de agua

100 Love Sonnets

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

Sherman Alexie

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

100 Love Sonnets

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

A Wrinkle in Time

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Thom Gunn

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Italo Calvino

And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

100 Love Sonnets

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

100 Love Sonnets

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

The Sonnets and Narrative Poems

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

100 Love Sonnets

The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

I Sonetti Di Michelangelo: The 78 Sonnets of Michelangelo with Verse Translation

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Henry Austin Dobson

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Seamus Heaney

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my che...

100 Love Sonnets