A Few Dont's by an Imagiste by Ezra Pound 1913

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Particularly liked

"  the natural object is always the adequate symbol"

in more than the obvious sense of preferring metaphor over simile.

Also the preference for science as discovery.  Which implies lots of errors, missteps, and surprises (with a few explosions the poet can avoid?) on the way to discovery.

Must listen to some French poetry in hexameter, just for the sound.  Like Lully's music, not so much ancient as a road not taken.

Sometimes even poets can't avoid the explosions.
But yes,  loved the view that the path in poetry, like most everything, is to stretch your current knowledge and skills even though you may fall flat.