"Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia."

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Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Richard Wilbur

#Composition Quotes

“Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.”
“Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.”

Source : "This thing called ballet".
“I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”
“Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.”
“I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.”

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