"Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos."

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Billy Collins

#Chaos Quotes #Form Quotes #Aspect Quotes

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
“When you're young, you want to convince everyone that you're right and they're wrong. As you get older, it's not important if you are right or wrong, it's important that you work together with other people and get something done.”
“I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.”
“It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.”

Source : "The West (The People)". TV Series, September 15, 1996.
“Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
“I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you...”
“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.85, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

Source : Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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