"No art form points like poetry to this……" — Thomas Harrison
"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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13 Quotes by Thomas Harrison
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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the…
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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
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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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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
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