Quotes About Form

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I'm really pleased to form part of the Barca family.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

I am a striker who needs to play plenty in order to get to my best form.

I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Sometimes you just hit that form and everything goes in; you get chances and you're more ruthless with them, more clinical.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.