The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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"A Defence of Slang"Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang (‘argot’) exists not anymore.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.
Alexander Maclaren
So different, this man
And this woman:
A stream flowing
In a field.William Carlos Williams
…slang…the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.
Anthony Burgess
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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