The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.