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I. A. Richards Quotes

1893–1979 England

Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A.

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Rhetoric, I shall urge, should be a study of misunderstanding and its remedies.

Philosophy of Rhetoric (1964)

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)

An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated.

Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)

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