#condense

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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