Beautiful words.

"Most people, when they consider beautiful writing, immediately think about a few of the people they were always told wrote beautifully. Faulkner’s a big one, of course . You can’t go wrong with the traditional poetic lines of Oscar Wilde. But, at the same time, we have been told so long what beautiful writing is, we commonly don’t look for it on our own as a reader. We also don’t commonly value what it is that beautiful writing does—it’s not just reminiscent of poetry. It’s about the writer being effective in his or her talent and catching the reader off guard in a sublimely clear way."

- from On Noticing Beautiful Writing by Jessi Lewis