M. de Freycinet was not boasting when he wrote later, "Alone, without allies, without leaders, without an army, deprived for the first time of communication with its capital, it resisted for five months, with improvised resources, a formidable enemy that the regular armies of the Empire, though made up of heroic soldiers, had not been able to hold back five weeks."
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
I improvised my creed on the spur of the moment.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
If he had not told us that he improvised we would never have doubted that these poems were composed like all other poems, with some labor.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell