sonnet quotes

A sonnet is a moment's monument,ö Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
The House of Life, introduction.

[This] much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and, when you die, your memorydie fromthe earth for want of an epigraph.

-Sidney, Sir Philip
  The Defence of Poetry.

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