Famous quotes containing the words original and/or rules:
“The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)