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“Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.”

Ifs Walks Events Poet Sight Mood Anticipation Day To Day Routes Sonnet

Book:Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues

Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues

“I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.”

Results Predictions Sonnet

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.”

Games Scientist Curiosity Driven Usual Delightful Sonnet Insatiable

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex. None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.”

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”

Love Eye Sun Simile Mistress Sonnet Love Poems Famous Love Poem

Author:William Shakespeare

“We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.”

Ifs Love Wells Dies Peace Rooms Half Fit Prove Live By Legends Ashes Verses Sonnet Tombs Acres Chronicles

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.”

Christian Song Kissing Dancing Rage Ridiculous Lust Sensuality Compliment Abandoned Provoking Sonnet Good Christian Wanton Pranks Attire Amorous

Author:William Prynne

“Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.”

Writing May Form Results Creativity Struggle Add Poetry Is Vitality Sonnet

Book:Love & Will

Source: Love & Will

“Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.”

Humans Form Existence Painting Skins Essence Depth Capture Equations Sonnet Human Form Skin Deep Euler

Author:Keith Devlin

“What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.”

Writing Mind Body Together Speak Stupid Movement Holes Sonnet Sock

Book:The Journal of Albion Moonlight

Source: The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“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.”

Ifs May Littles Different Life Is Collections Publish Sonnet Bards Working Now

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

Smell Weed Sonnet Lilies

Author:William Shakespeare

“What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make perfect, when to everyone else you speak to they're quite ordinary. It's a cruel sort of thing.”

Speak Sound Perfect Secret Expression Ordinary Shining Sonnet Secret Love

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.”

Writing Form Guy Song Italian Sonnet Imitating

Author:Steve Earle

“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.”

Ifs Writing Problem Lines Creativity Boundaries Sonnet Containers

Author:Lorne Michaels

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”

“One man in his time plays many parts.”

“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.”

Writing Trying Real Order Practice Poet Proposal Sonnet Objections

Author:James Fenton

“A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.”

Humor Funny Turns Lines Six Eight Sonnet

Author:Robert Frost

“The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.”

Important Light Reading Clarity Documents Autobiography Caves Fascination Sonnet

Author:Gilbert Highet

“I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.”

Writing Used Interesting Moved Including Various Rhythm Prose Sonnet

Author:Shelby Foote

“Love that well which thou must leave ere long.”

Love Wells Long Sonnet

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.”

Wanted Literature Voice Narrative Sonnet Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author:Diane Wakoski

“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.”

Knows Writing Two Form Three Enjoy Sonnet Concluding Couplets

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.”

Want Sometimes Beautiful Form Situation Written Focused What You Want Sonnet Headings Love Poems Beautiful Love

Author:Etgar Keret

“When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.”

Firsts Law Lines Lawyer Anarchy Sonnet Anarchist Law Students Funny Lawyer Best Lawyer Noble Profession Legal Ethics

Author:Craig Reucassel

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