Who said “All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”?

“Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”

“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”

“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”

“I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passT before it gets into print.”

“The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”

“[A]rt is limitation. [...] The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

“For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.”