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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

E. B. White
Art, Space, Add
E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.156, Cornell University Press

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

E. B. White
Art, Children, Writing
1961 In the New Yorker, 11 Nov. Tribute to James Thurber.

Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.

E. B. White
Photography, Art, Writing

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