"The first thought of some is to consult books.
The first impulse of others is look at things."

"A man who feels things very deeply and has a sense of being intimately bound up with those things themselves cannot help being obscure.
For visibility ceases a few yards below the surface.
To feel very deeply the latent presence, the countless combinations,the sum of all the possibilities of a language transforms *the idea of a thought,* and imparts to every thought that "occurs" to us both freedoms and exigencies quite other than those which are the lot of thoughts handled on everyday lines."
Paul Valery
Analects