Shakespeare's Sonnets Quotes

• A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

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  Thomas C Foster

  Witty   Taken   Play  

  1911

• I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

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  Diane Wakoski

  Voice   Literature   Narrative  

  4595

• There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

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  C. S. Lewis

  Men   Thinking   Matter  

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  1535

• O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

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  Virginia Woolf

  Flower   Pages   Shakespeare's Sonnets  

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.64, Virginia Woolf

  723

• Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

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  Dan Simmons

  Ios   Phrases   Want  

  2358

• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. 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.

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  Peter O'Toole

  Hard Work   Thinking   Voice  

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