Chess/composition

Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or composition:

“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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