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

“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.”

“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”

“Your days are your sonnets.”

“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”

“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”

“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.”

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