To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.
Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.
Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.
Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
