Mary McCarthy
Author
"Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity."
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Stammering
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Poet, Novelist
"Poetics is a science for stammering poets."
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