Simplicity is the essential, vital element of description.
In plain words
The simplest words often describe things best.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense, trans. Friedrich Kapp (Rudd & Carleton, 1860; Gutenberg #67420). Letter 61, Humboldt to Varnhagen, Dec. 7, 1841.
- Letters to Varnhagen von Ense
- 1841 · praising a friend's biography of the soldier Schwerin
