Sonnet Quotes - page 2

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. (Rachel Cusk)
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. View quote
Henry Austin Dobson
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. View quote
James Fenton
A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography. View quote
George Lyman Kittredge
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. View quote
Sherman Alexie
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Luís de Camões