Form Quotes
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Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
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The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.
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People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.
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I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
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The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
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We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.
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Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.
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Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in addition it means that you can explore an idea and change it and then change it and then change it; I don't mean by changing the one pot, but you make one pot then you make another that's related to that; you make another - you can make 50 pots in a day and none of them are going to be carbon copies of any other, but they'll all be related because there's something going through your mind about the form on that particular day.
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
