John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
'Rhymes's Reason':a guide to English Verse Yale University Press, 1981
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
— G. K. Chesterton, book The Defendant
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&quot;&pg=PA110#v=onepage" <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)
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Selected Prose (1995), p. 131
