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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. and the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... i don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. and the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... i don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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