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The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nightingales, but to say something that has never been said about anything.
— Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (1928)

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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