No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

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.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.