#composition

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. ↗

— Dimitri Shostakovich

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

— Edward Gibbon

#book #composition #habits #i #learning

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. ↗

— Santoka Taneda

#creating #haiku #japanese #poetry #zen

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

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I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going. ↗

— Robin Trower

#been #blessed #composition #creativity #feel

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. ↗

— Robert Henri

#away #bridge #composition #each #good

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. ↗

— Horace

#eye #kept #least #literary #nine

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further. ↗

— Kip Winger

#combined #composition #enabled #experience #four