I don't mean to hi-jack Marty's thread, but just had to jump in when I read your "distilled language". That is how I feel about poetry in a nutshell really.
'distil'...verb...to vaporize and recondense (a liquid); to purify, separate, concentrate.
Nice.
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I may adopt "distil language" as my motto!
Cheers, Will.