Composition Written

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“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)