Singing School
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 103
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
"Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry" http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/400_opportunities/430_gettingpub/bell.cfm, statement # 5, The Writer's Chronicle, Commemorative Issue (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
“Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.”
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”
February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 128
“The rules always seem to be in the service of someone else.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“There are no rules. We do whatever seems the most fun.”
Bjorn to Captain Roadstrum, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
