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> [Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/other-far-fewer-directors-are-more-like-the-composer-conceptualizing/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

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## More by Thomas Harrison

> [No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/no-art-form-points-like-poetry-to-this-originality-of-language-as-to/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/with-the-question-of-the-effect-of-a-poem-the-topic-of-investigation/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/a-jacket-commemorating-the-germans-as-champions-of-the-1990-world-cup/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/still-the-question-remains-of-what-actually-speaks-in-a-poem-if-not/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/other-far-fewer-directors-are-more-like-the-composer-conceptualizing/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/unlike-metaphor-metonymy-does-not-try-to-fuse-images-together/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/most-film-directors-do-not-come-up-with-their-own-subjects-or-write/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/to-liberate-words-means-first-to-shatter-their-function-as-vehicles/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/a-poem-conveys-not-a-message-so-much-as-the-provenance-of-a-message/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/in-recent-decades-this-symbolic-or-metaphorical-lyric-has-given-way/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/in-an-age-where-history-is-recorded-on-t-shirts-the-very-notion-of/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/as-witnesses-that-the-things-were-not-done-in-a-corner/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

> [Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-harrison/experience-has-ceded-to-a-series-of-happenings-about-which-the-most/)

[Thomas Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-harrison/)

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