Letters Are Largely Written To Get Things

It's Rather Grisly, Isnt It, How Soon A Living Man Becomes Nothing More Than A Collection Of Stocks And Bonds And Debts And Real Estate?

In The Last Twenty-five Years A Change Has Come Over The Visual Habits Of Americans . . . From Being A Wordminded People We Are Becoming An Eyeminded People.

Three Words That Still Have Meaning, That I Think We Can Apply To All Professional Writing, Are Discovery, Originality, Invention.the Professional Writer Discovers Some Aspect Of The World And Invents Out Of The Speech Of His Time Some Particularly Apt And Original Way Of Putting It Down On Paper.

It Is A Most Curious Experience For A Man Of Seventy-two To Be Confronted With The Greenhorn Enthusiasms Of His Youth. Young People Think They Are So Smart. Alas The Doctrines They Spout With Such Fervor Turn Out To Be Mostly Parroted From Their Elders.

Walt Whitman's A Hell Of A Lot More Revolutionary Than Any Russian Poet I've Ever Heard Of.