I. A. Richards
English literary critic and educator
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words are not a medium in which to copy life. Their true work is to restore life itself to order.
—I. A. Richards, English literary critic and educator, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1936
Posted on December 15, 2003 at 8:50 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words are the meeting points at which regions of experience which can never combine in sensation or intuition, come together. They are the occasion and the means of that growth which is the mind's endless endeavor to order itself. That is why we have language. It is no mere signalling system. It is the instrument of all our distinctively human development, of everything in which we go beyond the other animals.
—I. A. Richards, English literary critic and educator, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1936
Posted on December 10, 2003 at 7:15 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
No word can be judged as to whether it is good or bad, correct or incorrect, beautiful or ugly, or anything else that matters to a writer, in isolation.
—I. A. Richards, English literary critic and educator, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1936
Posted on November 13, 2000 at 6:21 AM
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