Learning to write publishable material is essentially a social process. It’s like learning to say, ‘Oh not so bad, not so bad,’ when someone asks you how you are, rather than actually telling them anything.
“A man who deals in harmonies, who only matches stars with angels, or lambs with spring flowers, he indeed may be frivolous. But a man who ventures to combine an angel and an octopus must have some serious view of the universe.”