It is time to deal sternly with the criticisms heaped upon that admirable style by the wretched taste of the last century, and to proclaim aloud that Moliere occupies the topmost pinnacle of our drama, not only as a poet, but also as a writer.
_Palmas vere habet iste duas_.
In his work the verse surrounds the idea, becomes of its very essence, compresses and develops it at once, imparts to it a more slender, more definite, more complete form, and gives us, in some sort, an extract thereof.

Verse is the optical form of thought.

That is why it is especially adapted to the perspective of the stage.

Constructed in a certain way, it communicates its relief to things which, but for it, would be considered insignificant and trivial.

It makes the tissue of style finer and firmer.