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The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.
Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.
There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.
Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.
I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.
There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.
I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.
There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.