red rocks & warm socks (One thing that makes English so marvelous for...)

"One thing that makes English so marvelous for poetry is its great range and the fact that it is an uninflected language. One can turn verbs into nouns and vice versa, as Shakespeare did. One cannot do this with inflected languages such as German, French, Italian."

W. H. Auden (via theparisreview)

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