The purpose of art is to project feelings and the reality of a subjective private life in the midst of public events into a particular plastic medium-words, in the case of prose.

艺术的目的是以特定的可塑性媒体(对于散文而言就是词语)在公共事件中反映出个人感情以及个人私生活的真实性。

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He himself was an accomplished music and art critic, as elegant a wordsmith in prose as in speech.

他本人是一个颇有成就的音乐和艺术评论家，说起话来，用词文雅。

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Lin Yutang's artistic achievement of his later prose presents in "My Country and My People", "the art of Life".

林语堂后期散文创作成就集中体现在《吾国与吾民》、《生活的艺术》这两本介绍中国文化的书中。

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Kidder and Todd's "Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, " to be published Tuesday.

WSJ: Word Craft: Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd on Good Prose

Two recent examples hit home why the semicolon, otherwise despised by writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut, is indispensable to the art and architecture of prose.

FORBES: Satmars, Simone de Beauvoir And semicolons