![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/8156884/Wa6YKOiHFURvHouEKX2SA3Y7mpra-nHJXwCH91Pyrxs-cover-8156884.png) ## Metadata - Authors: [[heinrich-von-kleist|Heinrich Von Kleist]] [[michael-hamburger|Michael Hamburger]] - Full Title:: On the Gradual Construction of Thoughts During Speech - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Writing is thinking|Writing Is Thinking]], - URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/8156884 - Read date:: [[2025-08-16]] ## Highlights > The hunian face confronting a speaker is an extraordinary source of inspiration to him and a glance which informs us that a thought we have only half expressed has already been grasped often saves us the trouble of expressing all the remaining half. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k2qsa6hhh9x1peb5zgjggmwd))