A sonnet is a wave of melody
From heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.
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from The Sonnets Voice (A Meterical Lesson by the Seashore)Theodore Watts-Dunton
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We watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.Thomas Hood
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
Albert Schweitzer
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost — that it is born again.
James Fenton
I think I only needed something to hold on to. It has never been about depravity. It's always been about melody. But melody and I met in many depraved situations. Meeting melody is the victory of the empty spiralling nightmare.
Peter Doherty
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,—
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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