Famous Quotes | A poet who makes use of a worse...

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more. - Horace Walpole
Attribution: Horace Walpole (1717–1797), British author. Horace Walpole’s Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 20, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978). Originally written in 1786.

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