Quotes of: Sonnet Keyword

She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.

CHIMERAS

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

Love Poems and Sonnets

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

Shakespeare's Sonnets

You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.

Unrequited

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

Peter O'Toole

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

Sharon Olds

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Jack Prelutsky

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Julie Burchill

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Robert Pinsky

When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail How soothing! never can her warm tears fail To balm our bleeding grief's sever...

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

Ode to the Chamber ...linger here amidst the chamber in which we embrace our love talk to me of sonnets and call me turtledove...

Enigmatic Evolution

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

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Princess of Glass

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that ...

Robert Moog

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

Holy Sonnets

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Sonnets from the Portuguese

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Shakespeare's Sonnets