Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a… — Michel de Montaigne
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness… — Gaston Bachelard
The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. — James Wolfe
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the… — George S. Patton
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. — Erica Jong
To compose is to remember music that has never been written. — Robert Schumann
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart,… — Franz Liszt
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much… — Brian Ferneyhough
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great… — Rick Wright
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet… — Alicia Witt
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of… — Samuel George Morton
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and… — Anna Quindlen
Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of… — Kate Horsley
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who… — Socrates
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever… — Rudolf Rocker
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen

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