“A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography.”
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 1936. Chap XI
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George Lyman Kittredge 2
American scholar, literary critic, and folklorist 1860–1941Related quotes

“It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.”
Sound bite reported in <i>Time</i>, February 20, 2008. http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1715169,00.html
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“Can you tell me who is good and who is bad ? The ancient "we and they" divides us artificially.”
"Beatitudes", Sam Hamill, Poets Against the War 2003

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“Yes, there's love if you want it. Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord.”
Urban Hymns (1997)

1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: Remember that in life, and above all in the very active, practical, workaday life on this continent, the man who wins out must be the man who works. He can not play all the time. He can not have play as his principal occupation and win out. Let him play; let him have as good a time as he can have. I have a pity that is akin to contempt for the man who does not have as good a time as he can out of life. But let him work. Let him count in the world. When he comes to the end of his life let him feel he has pulled his weight and a little more. A sound body is good; a sound mind is better; but a strong and clean character is better than either.

“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
As quoted by Laura Huxley, in conversation with Alan Watts about her memoir This Timeless Moment (1968), in Pacifica Archives #BB2037 [sometime between 1968-1973])

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
Quote from People, 27 September 1976
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1971 - 1980

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