Phrases Quotes

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phr...

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task...

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...