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Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.Unknown
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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.Unknown
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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 swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.Unknown
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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 then write it down.Maria Mazziotti Gillan
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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 flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.Graham Greene
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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.Madeleine LEngle
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Pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." MarisolEileen Granfors
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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.Plato
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I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.Franz Schubert
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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 teacher.Unknown
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Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.DAndre Lampkin
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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 salon. Victor explains that this is just another word for the living room. No understanding in the student's eyes. He tries Spanish: la salon. Still nothing. The student has grown up as a migrant worker. And Victor remembers the white student who had been in his class a quarter ago, who had written about not understanding racism, that there was none where he had grown up, in Wennatchee, that he has played with the children of his father's migrant workers without there being any hostility. His father's workers. Property. Property that doesn't know of living rooms. And Victor thought of what the man from Wennatchee knew, what the ROTC Mexican American knew, what the migrant worker knew. And he thought of getting up the next morning to go with Serena to St. Mary's for cheese and butter. And he knew there was something he was not doing in his composition classrooms.Victor Villanueva
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There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.Samuel Beckett
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Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.Matt Hardy
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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.Arthur Murphy