Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language / religion / government / blood / identity in these makes men of one country.