There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
That is not good language which all understand not.
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
