The Man Who Fears War And Squats

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.

You Have Been Second Always. Tragical? No. You Preferred It To The Usual Thing: One Dull Man, Dulling And Uxorious, One Average Mind- With One Thought Less, Each Year.

Compose In The Sequence Of The Musical Phrase, Not In Sequence Of A Metronome.

Utter Originality Is, Of Course, Out Of The Question.

Colloquial Poetry Is To The Real Art As The Barber's Wax Dummy Is To Sculpture.