Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
"Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown."
But let your "Yes" be "Yes", and your "No," "No". For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
People who publicize important things are people who can't do important things themselves.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Sans phrases.