"The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay."

-- Robert Scholes

#Past Quotes #Play Quotes #Stories Quotes

“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.”
“There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.”
“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”

Source : "Term 'states' rights' heard anew in election cycle" by Allen G. Breed, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.
“People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too”
“For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.”
“We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.”
“John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.”
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

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