1. sonnet - Noun
2. sonnet - Verb
A short poem, -- usually amatory.
A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
To compose sonnets.
Source: Webster's dictionaryScorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. William Wordsworth
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it. Rollo May
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. Giacomo Casanova
When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity! Charles Lamb
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. A. R. Ammons