sonnet quotes

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

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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.

- Sir Philip Sidney
  The Defence of Poetry.