One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the...
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'Huh?'Quite so. The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsi...
Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer rea...
House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly ap...