Quotes About Form

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

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

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.