Sonnet Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Would Be, Hills, Expecting

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review". www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Perfect, Invention

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• No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Rivers, Bridges

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Keith Devlin

  Essence, Skins, Depth

  "Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills". Book by Paul J. Nahin, 2006.

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• She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.

  Millard Kaufman

  Writing, Night, Hands

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• I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Writing, Expression

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.81, Anchor

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