The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.


'Who Shall Plan the Planners' (1940)

W. H. Auden Quotes

The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.

The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.

The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.

The test of good prose is that the reader does not notice it any more than a man looking through a window at a landscape notices the glass.