If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Drawing forceful distinctions and being civil are not mutually exclusive.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
Hyperbole engaged in consciously to achieve a desired effect can be, as we have noted, a useful rhetorical tool. Indeed, its use in this manner is sometimes called "exaggeration in the service of truth." However, there's much to be said for restraint of tongue and pen, and restraint refers not only to what we say but also to how we say it. It is possible, believe it or not, to be emphatic without indulging in overstatement; it is possible to be forceful without exaggerating.
The Grammar Curmudgeon
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.
I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect. I use it like karate. I bring it out when it's needed.
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
It’s not enough to ring the bell. You have to make sure the other guy hears it.
… sledgehammer eloquence...
Make your point as clear as possible and thrust the steel well home.
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Rage with panache.
Write like a motherfucker.
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
