For when persons coming from different pursuits, lives, interests, ages and walks of literature have all alike on the same matters the same view, then this consensus of discordant elements assumes the character of a “judgement,’ and the weight of conviction it brings to bear on the admired passage becomes powerful and indisputable.
—Longinus, “On the Sublime”
ugly punctuation
No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly.
—Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Norton, 1979)
—Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Norton, 1979)
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