Murphy's Style Sheet for Revising Poetry (from Bill Moyers on Poetry)
Cliché Eliminate clichés, which are the vermin of imaginative writing. Initially fresh images, clichés have been taken over and made mundane by too frequent usage. They have lost their original authority, power, and beauty. They raise their predictable heads (aaah, a cliché!) in the early drafts of... Sign in to see full entry.