Sonnet Quotations

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

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

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.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Everything nourishes what is strong already

I think that we've gotten to a point where we do think that a really good, really expensive gift may actually take the place of a sonnet written on your own.

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

A sonnet is a moment's monument, -/ Memorial from the Soul's eternity/ To one dead deathless hour.

It was a serious sonnet to a girl and the guy was actually interested in her and hadn't told her yet. It was kind of cool to be the vehicle of that expression.

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.

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!

Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.