The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.