Elegant Expression Quotes

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.