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To Read A Poem With No Thought In Mind But To Paraphrase It Into A Single, Simple And Usually High-minded Prose Statement Is The Destruction Of Poetry.

Early To Bed And Early To Rise Probably Indicates Unskilled Labor.

Within A Single Scene, It Seems To Be Unwise To Have Access To The Inner Reflections Of More Than One Character. The Reader Generally Needs A Single Character As The Means Of Perception, As The Character To Whom The Events Are Happening, As The Character With Whom He Is To Empathize In Order To Have The Events Of The Writing Happen To Him.

Conviction Is Possible Only In A World More Primitive Than Ours Can Be Perceived To Be. A Man Can Achieve A Simply Gnomic Conviction Only By Ignoring The Radical Describers Of His Environment, Or By Hating Them, As Convinced Men Have Hated, Say, Darwin And Freud, As Agents Of Some Devil.

It Is Easy Enough To Praise Men For The Courage Of Their Conviction. I Wish I Could Teach The Sad Young Of This Mealy Generation The Courage Of Their Convictions.