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The terse short-story writers, the poets who never capitalized or punctuated—they came into existence via the telegraph, and now that the telegraph is done with, that sort of writing has mostly vanished too.
Margaret Atwood • Old Babes in the Wood
a good sentence: a small explosion of exactitude.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
In both examples each line contains a single thought that finishes with the line. This is called end-stopping, which we could mark like this. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall ⊡ I haven’t time to take your call right now ⊡
Stephen Fry • The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Look closely at those two examples above. Not only do they feature these run-ons or enjambments, which allow a sense of continual flow, they also contain pauses which break up that flow; in the examples above it happens that these pauses are expressed by commas that serve the office of a breath, or change of gear: I shall render them like this ¶. H
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As T.S. Eliot put it: ‘Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal.’