“Bruzundanga's literature is ruled by cute, rhyming and tasteless sonnets.”
Os Bruzundangas (1923)
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Brazilian writer 1881–1922Related quotes
“I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.”
Source: On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/rabih-alameddine-interview-an-unnecessary-woman-national-book-award in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)
“The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”
Source: Confessions of an Heiress (2004), p. 53 (included in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1212303/Paris-Hilton-feature-Oxford-Dictionary-Quotes-alongside-Confucius-Oscar-Wilde-yes-really.html)
“Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme, and do not merely rhyme…”
Nihilist und Christ: das reimt sich, das reimt sich nicht bloss.
Sec. 58, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale. In German these words do rhyme; variant translation: Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme, and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
The Antichrist (1888)
“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”
Stanza ii.
One Word More (1855)
Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 22: Poetic Drama and Opera (p. 125)
“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”
St. 1.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 7, p. 143
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