The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.