Quotations and Adaptations
- Nine of the sonnets were set to music for tenor and piano by Benjamin Britten in August 1945.
- The lines "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (HS 10) are often quoted—as, for example, in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, Wit (1995), and the movie of the same name.
- The first line of HS 14, beginning "Batter my heart three-personed God", are cited by such artists as Hendrik Hofmeyr and in such productions as John Adams's opera Doctor Atomic.
- The first nuclear weapon test, Trinity was named by J. Robert Oppenheimer after some extracts of the Holy Sonnets.
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“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
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