“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”

“My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost — that it is born again.”

“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”

“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”

“Bruzundanga's literature is ruled by cute, rhyming and tasteless sonnets.”

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”

“A sonnet is a wave of melody
From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.”

“Our names were made for us in another century.”

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

“Yes, there's love if you want it. Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord.”