Quotes of Shapeless - somelinesforyou

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. ”

- John Dryden

“ Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ We hope the real person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell. ”

- John Updike

“ In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form. ”

- Hugh MacLennan

“ Reality is a formless lure,And only when we know thisDo we dare to be unreal. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form. ”

- Kabbalah

“ All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ All the means of action — the shapeless masses — the materials — lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.". ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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