About adjectives: all fine prose is based on verbs carrying the sentences. They make sentences move. Probably the finest technical poem in English is Keats’s “Eve of Saint Agnes.” A line like:
The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass.
is so alive that you race through it, scarcely noticing it, yet it has colored the whole poem with its movement—the limping, trembling, and freezing is going on before your own eyes.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (in a letter to his daughter, Frances, quoted in The Crack-Up.)
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