One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee