The critic leaves at curtain fall
To find, in starting to review it,
He scarcely saw the play at all
For starting to review it.
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
E.B. WhiteA poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E.B. WhiteWilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
E.B. WhiteSemi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E.B. WhiteEverything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
E.B. WhiteAdvice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
E.B. WhiteTags: young-writers
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
E.B. WhiteThis is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.
This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing
Tags: death
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.
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