Spenserian Sonnet Quotes & Sayings

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. — Moritz Gudemann

If you remain silent, the shame is yours. If you speak out the shame is his. Shout out as loud as you can — Philippa Sklaar

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. — Norman Cousins

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. — Steven Seagal

A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot old man say: "Yes, it's the old iambic tetrameter acalectic." It was the equivalent of a Cornish fisherman pointing out the difference, in practicality incomprehensible dialect, between the Petrachian and the Spenserian sonnet. It was quite correct. Where on earth had he learnt it? His last bit of information was that, in the old days (that wonderful cupboard!) the Arabs used to come to this coast to dive for the murex. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art. — Eudora Welty

Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer. — John Crowley

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff. — Callan McAuliffe

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration. — Rob Payne