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Letter "S" » Sonnets
«I intended an Ode, / And it turned to a Sonnet.»
«Our freedom as free lancesadvances toward its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon my friend We shall have no time for dances.»
«I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
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«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.»
«A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.»
Author: Robert Heinlein
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«I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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buying, inquiring, literary critic, passably, sonnet, Sonnets, take in, uncritical
«When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, `Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'»
«Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?»
Author: David Ogilvy
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«Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.»
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