"Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle."

-- William Carlos Williams

#Art Quotes #Principles Quotes #Form Quotes

“Comedy can't be about continuous success.”
“It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.”
“Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.”
“In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.”

Source : Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer
“The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.”
“A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.”
“Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.”

Source : David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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