Composition Quotes
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![Muriel Spark](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1342563799i/13093._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.”
― A Far Cry from Kensington
― A Far Cry from Kensington
![Madeleine L'Engle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1305256804i/106._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
![Graham Greene](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254688603i/2533._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
![Matsuo Bashō](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651736722i/62257._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
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![Santōka Taneda](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266571794i/261614._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
![Frédéric Chopin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1237918511i/128294._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.”
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![George Sand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341112433i/1464._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“[On Chopin's Preludes:]
"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.”
― Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.”
― Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
![Santōka Taneda](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266571794i/261614._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.”
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
![Samuel Beckett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655570706i/1433597._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”
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![Anne Bradstreet](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1251398849i/159922._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“The Author To Her Book
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth did'st by my side remain,
Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad exposed to public view,
Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.
I cast thee by as one unfit for light,
The visage was so irksome in my sight,
Yet being mine own, at length affection would
Thy blemishes amend, if so I could.
I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
I stretcht thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet.
In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
But nought save home-spun cloth, i' th' house I find.
In this array, 'mongst vulgars may'st thou roam.
In critic's hands, beware thou dost not come,
And take thy way where yet thou art not known.
If for thy father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.”
― The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth did'st by my side remain,
Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad exposed to public view,
Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.
I cast thee by as one unfit for light,
The visage was so irksome in my sight,
Yet being mine own, at length affection would
Thy blemishes amend, if so I could.
I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
I stretcht thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet.
In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
But nought save home-spun cloth, i' th' house I find.
In this array, 'mongst vulgars may'st thou roam.
In critic's hands, beware thou dost not come,
And take thy way where yet thou art not known.
If for thy father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.”
― The Works of Anne Bradstreet
![Plato](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651532170i/879._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.”
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“Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206559375i/67032._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
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“Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.”
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“In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.”
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“Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
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![Eileen Granfors](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1287172999i/4150542._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol”
― Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead
― Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead
![Jon Fosse](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1555792719i/68668._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often than not the picture’ll be ruined...”
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
― I Is Another: Septology III-V
“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)”
― Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
― Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
![Maria Mazziotti Gillan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1325039446i/60331._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.”
― Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories
― Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories
![Frank McCourt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263585664i/3347._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“JESUS & THE WEATHER
I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to crucifixions.
Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was go up the road to a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions asked and He'd get his feet washed and dried with Mary Magdalene's hair while Martha washed the dishes, which I don't think is fair. Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write compositions about Him.
The End.”
― Angela’s Ashes
I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp. My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to crucifixions.
Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was go up the road to a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions asked and He'd get his feet washed and dried with Mary Magdalene's hair while Martha washed the dishes, which I don't think is fair. Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write compositions about Him.
The End.”
― Angela’s Ashes
![Robert Henri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1248163092i/112030._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.”
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![Gertrude Stein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1422989334i/9325._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“the composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.”
― Picasso
― Picasso
“The word 'composition' applies to music, too, and it can be useful to think about how art is created in relation to music when trying to analyse it.”
― How to Read Paintings
― How to Read Paintings
![Richie Norton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1662955369i/5821896._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I’ve learned that people think their “self” is the composition of the walls they hide behind. What are you hiding behind? Have you become the things you use to hide?”
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![Claude Debussy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1329476001i/72795.jpg)
“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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