#brevity

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To write good poems is the secret of brevity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poems #poetry

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657) ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conciseness #correspondence #humor #letters #pithy

Had we but world enough and time.... ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#life

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Et in Arcadia Ego ↗

— Numerous Evelyn Waugh

#brevity-of-life #death #beauty

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#charm #eloquence #great

Brevity is the soul of wit. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#soul #wit

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational