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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

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Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

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You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

Everything, Feelings, Nothing, Owe, Reality, Truth

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

Besides, Four, Idiots, Longer, Needs, Ugly

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Nice, Poem, Real, Trouble, Writing

Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

Come, Firsts, Hard Work, Ones, Waiting, Wonder

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Class, Creative, Matters, Teaching, Writing
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