Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
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