"A poem conveys not a message so much……" — Thomas Harrison
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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Thomas Harrison
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13 Quotes by Thomas Harrison
Thomas Harrison has 13 quotes on this site.
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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the…
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As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
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Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.
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In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an…
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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
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Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
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Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among…
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Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.
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To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
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Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
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With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to…
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More Advent Quotes
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read,…
— Theodore Bikel
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent…
— Sun Tzu
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
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I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died…
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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting…
— Robert Powell
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Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of…
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