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“I have been composing my whole life, although I didn’t know initially that was what I was doing,” RZA says about the 11-track album, which was heavily influenced by his philosophical journey towards Chan Buddhism.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

He might have been composing a hymn to the unhasting and unresting march of that divinity.

From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia

During this time the brother poets must have been composing or arranging the Lyrical Ballads, which were published the following year, i.e.

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

Here I have been composing my soul to do without it, and here you are vexing me with your vain suggestions.”

From The Sea Wolf by London, Jack

Those gossips in the nursery were a great source of disturbance to Beth when she ought to have been composing herself to sleep.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah