A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography. (George Lyman Kittredge)

A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography.

George Lyman Kittredge

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