Sport is an art: it has incredible appeal everywhere on this earth, and it fills so many human hearts with passion that it's impossible to dismiss.
Interpretation
Sports evoke deep emotional connections and admiration across cultures.
In this quote, Frank Deford emphasizes the universal appeal of sports as an art form that resonates with people worldwide. He suggests that the passion generated by sports captivates hearts, making it a significant aspect of human experience that cannot be easily overlooked or disregarded.
In practice
In discussions about the cultural impact of sports at an international conference.
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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