• The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214