It Is By Sitting Down

Words Are As Recalcitrant As Circus Animals, And The Unskilled Trainer Can Crack His Whip At Them In Vain.

When I Write A Page That Reads Badly I Know That It Is Myself Who Has Written It. When It Reads Well It Has Come Through From Somewhere Else.

The Cliché Is Dead Poetry. English, Being The Language Of An Imaginative Race, Abounds In Clichés, So That English Literature Is Always In Danger Of Being Poisoned By Its Own Secretions.

Intellectuals Are People Who Believe That Ideas Are Of More Importance Than Values. That Is To Say, Their Own Ideas And Other People's Values.

The Cliche Is Dead Poetry.