A poet’s words go through us and through us. And that’s causally connected with the use that they have in our life. And it is also connected with the way in which, conformably to this use, we let our thoughts roam up and down in the familiar surroundings of the words.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel, 155.
[Cited in The Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature by Angus Fletcher]
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form and thought
A discipline in form is a discipline in thought.
—Stanley Fish, How to Write A Sentence: And How to Read One (Harper, 2011)
—Stanley Fish, How to Write A Sentence: And How to Read One (Harper, 2011)
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