[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. ... It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Source: Quoted in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer, Holt, Rinehart & Winston 63
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26 1874-1963), US poet; He was America's unofficial poet laureate who wrote of rural New England, e.g., The Road Not Taken.