Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. Notes on Language and Style (1929)
Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one. Notes on Language and Style (1929)
If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them. Notes on Language and Style (1929)