Sonnet 16 Quotes

“To give yourself away keep yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify yourself in your decay
With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?”
― William Shakespeare, Sonnet 16

“Alas, I go and search in others, Lady, hoping I might find somehow, somewhere, your much-desired shape.”
― Francesco Petrarca