If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.