Quotes about Composition

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EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby derang — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flo — Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem — Bashō Matsuo
The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side remain,Till snatcht — Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on p — Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax retu — Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquir — Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol — Eileen Granfors, Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control — Plato
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a la — Adam J. Banks, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apar — John Green, Looking for Alaska
Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control tha — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, an — Woflgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them i — Jean Sibelius
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on th — Robert Henri
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert
Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you t — Thomas Ades, Thomas Adès: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service