Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the mo… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoet · English · 1772 – 1834

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