Formal Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Apology, Poetry

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• Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

  Simon Doonan

  Conventional

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• Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

  Steve McConnell

  Trying, Development, Projects

  Steve McConnell (1999). “After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering”

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• True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Real, Flower

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• The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Spiritual, Feelings, Essentials

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• Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

  William Barrett

  Men, Hands, Greek

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• Ardent
  yet chill and formal,
  how I ache
  to tempt a chisel
  as a sculptor.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Chill, Ache

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Perfection

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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• The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

  Frank Gehry

  Cities, Use, Architecture

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

  Gabe Polsky

  Father, School, Hockey

  Source: collider.com

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, People

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

  Peter Greenaway

  Attitude, Ambition, Character

  "Watching Water". Catalogue of the Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 1993.

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• The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

  Mark Steyn

  Law, Embodiment, Moral

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.203, Regnery Publishing

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• What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.

  Jordan Wolfson

  Art, Challenges, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.

  Mark Dever

  Thinking, Play, Important

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.

  Darold Treffert

  People, Personality, Genius

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Military, Differences

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never had any formal acting training, but they are all acting schools, basically. Just watching and learning from the best is insane. It's like having an internship and watching all these amazing people doing their work. You just soak it up like a sponge, hopefully.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Growing Up, School, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.

  Anne Waldman

  Ego, Shapes, Stuff

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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