Philip Sidney

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

English Soldier

Robert Moog

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

American Inventor

Jane Yolen

My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

American Writer

Etgar Keret

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.

Israeli Writer

Peter O'Toole

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

Irish Actor

Italo Calvino

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Italian Journalist

Robert Pinsky

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.

American Poet

Tallulah Bankhead

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.

American Actress

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.

Estonian Politician

Seamus Heaney

Irish Poet

Sonnet has a specific format, usually with an 8-6 or 4-4-3-3 stanza division.

Fixed Structure

The sonnet can have different patterns of rhyme, such as ABAB or ABBA.

Rhyme Schemes

Sonnets often explore themes of love, time, beauty, and mortality.

Themes

In music, a sonnet may refer to vocal compositions not necessarily linked to the 14-line form.

Classical Music

Musical sonnets often convey deep emotions and are performed with expressive nuance.

Emotional Expression

Unlike the literary form, a musical sonnet doesn't always follow strict patterns of lyrics or poetry.

Not Always Poetic

 you can fit in there only so I can push them to the back of the wall with my experience. People have bought tickets to my experience and used them as refrigerator magnets to let them know that the revolution is near, so stock up. I'm so experienced that when you went to a privileged school to learn a Shakespearean sonnet,

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 Different parts of our brains are good at different things, and we're continuously calling upon the pieces of them that are relevant for the task at hand. For example, nervously watching a garbage truck back up towards your car, the part of your brain that thinks about Shakespearean sonnets is probably inactive.

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 and the odd heard lately has been absolutely wonderful I've thoroughly enjoyed having these guys all over the place now it seems to be an interesting situation this afternoon because now all sitting with a male elephant I'm sitting with the male elephant she's waiting for her sonnets who potentially magically

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 Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics. One - poems emphasize language's musical qualities. This can be achieved through rhyme, rhythm, and meter, from the sonnets of Shakepeare, to the odes of Confucius,

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 history class and your teacher may play a video of martin luther king jr saying we will be able to hew out of this mountain of despair a stone of hope that's poetry or maybe even here in new york city you're going to go visit the statue of liberty where there's a sonnet

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 And in contrast, I had this failed legal career and some poems that I had written. At the time, I was working on a memoir in sonnet form, because why not. But I brought the sonnets to our second date, and I showed them to Ken.

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 spiritual beliefs poetry and music those are the finest expressions of the human spirit you know just just read Shakespeare's sonnets read Wordsworth read gates read whoever you know and

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 then decoded back into its original form. In 2012, UK scientists encoded 739 kilobytes of computer files into DNA strands, including all 154 Shakespeare sonnets

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 afraid we are unfortunately Baroness well what would we call it Baron with our search for spotted cats no sign of sobrino sonnet in Ghana and

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 he says America never was America to me but he goes on to say in the final sonnet but yes oh someday America will

Sonnet

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes.

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A sonnet is a special style of song, often used in classic music.

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