“Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart.”

“Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form the subject-matter of his 'Sonnets”

Sidney Lee (1859–1926) English biographer and critic

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

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

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

“I am he who held both the keys of the heart of Frederick, and who turned them, locking and unlocking so softly.”

Dante Alighieri book Inferno

“The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key, somebody had to unlock your heart, he said it was up to me.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world…”

Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer

“A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Education is the key; only when you've got the MASTER key to unlock all the locks!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author