"Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter."
Source : 1898 Telegram to the artist Frederic Remington at the beginning of the Spanish - American War in Cuba, Mar. This may be apocryphal, but it inspired a famous line of dialogue in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.
