The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
William Carlos WilliamsTHE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keepโor it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finishโ However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it โtomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.
William Carlos WilliamsWriting is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesโฆ It is not a conscious recording of the dayโs experiences โfreshly and with the appearance of realityโโฆ The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.
William Carlos Williams