The major characteristics of style, in so far as style is a technical matter of the building and placing of words, are given by the language itself [...] as the general acoustic effect of verse is given by the sounds and natural accents of the language.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.226

[...] style is not an absolute, a something that is to be imposed on the language from Greek and Latin models, but merely the language itself, running in its natural grooves [...] with [...] an individual accent [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.227