Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Until Quotations

The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.

I believe Schubert had many different methods for familiarizing himself with a poem: reading it aloud and silently, always thinking up new ideas about it, first letting various things knock around inside his head, until he finally decides what to do.