reciprocal change

1. Reciprocal Change occurs when two discrepant
thoughts are so expressed by transposition that the latter follows from the former although contradictory to it (Ad Herennium)

1. " You must eat to live, not live to eat." (Ad Herennium)

1. " I do not write poems, because I cannot write the sort I wish, and I do not wish to
write the sort I can." (Ad Herennium)

1. " A poem ought to be a painting that speaks a painting ought to be a silent poem." (Ad Herennium)

1. " If you are a fool, for that reason you should be silent ; and yet, although you should be silent, you are not for that reason a fool." (Ad Herennium)