By less, I don't mean that a poem with fewer lines is better than one with many lines. The idea here is to write in brief. If an idea or image can be expressed in a single line rather than in three, instead of three mediocre lines, you get a single beautiful line. Sometimes, a word or two can easily replace an entire line.
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Have you ever been served a dish, prepared in abundance, which not only tasted poor but also looked bad? That's exactly what a guest feels when he tastes a very lengthy poem with no intensity that keeps on whining the same shit monotonously with no aim or turns.
A dish should be prepared so that it can be consumed in a single sitting. Edgar Allan Poe believed that "If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression- for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed."(The Philosophy of Composition)
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So, cut the crap. Poems are the best lines in a book(I don't know who said that but I agree). Don't be redundant, like I am being right now!
