Compose Quotes
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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Euripides -
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
Evariste Galois
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
Venerable Bede -
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Frederick Delius -
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
Childe Hassam -
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
Cameron Dokey -
To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
Ivan Turgenev -
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Ezra Pound
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I always begin to compose the melody first.
Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages -
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.
Marcel Proust -
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
Richard Parks Bland -
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Confucius -
For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
Plato
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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
Charles Dickens -
Push your level of understanding so that you know your camera so well that you can frame within a fraction of an inch of the edge of the border, truly compose it how you want it and shoot it.
Jonathan Mannion -
The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
Steven Stucky -
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Time did not compose her.
Jane Austen -
I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
Michael Jackson
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I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did.
Elena Ferrante -
I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.
Robert Webb