To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Literature is news that stays news.

Either move or be moved.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.