waste no word

 Poet, waste no word or thus lessen the thrust of the line.

more than a game

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life on.
—Hans Ree

Poetry is beautiful enough to waste your life on.

wasted words

Poet, write through the necessary word-waste.

resource management

A poet prone to waste a lot of white space.

language thrift

A good poet is never one to waste words.

wasting silence

I’ve heard it said that ‘architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully’. I don’t know who to attribute that remark to; though it may be a misquote of something Philip Johnson once said. In any case, it’s a wry remark and it makes me think that “Poetry is the art of wasting silence (or its material manifestation: the blank page) beautifully."