Quotes About Structure

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.

The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.