The Image Is More Than An Idea.

Poetry Is About As Much A 'criticism Of Life' As Red-hot Iron Is A Criticism Of Fire.

Genius... Is The Capacity To See Ten Things Where The Ordinary Man Sees One.

Where The Dead Walked And The Living Were Made Of Cardboard.

Wars Are Made To Make Debt.

Use No Superfluous Word, No Adjective, Which Does Not Reveal Something. Don't Use Such An Expression As 'dim Land Of Peace.' It Dulls The Image. It Mixes An Abstraction With The Concrete. It Comes From The Writer's Not Realizing That The Natural Object Is Always The Adequate Symbol. Go In Fear Of Abstraction.