Composition Quote by Horace Download Open image “Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Crafts Eye Nine Nine years Public eye Years
“Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way… — Tom Kitt Copy Share Image
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
“should these tales ever become public, whether you have not given us a page of talk for every single idea which two words might… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
