19 quotes found
“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
“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 flower...”
“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 swords...”
“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 th...”
“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 ...”
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
“pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.”
“Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't understand the reference to a sal...”
“There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.”
