"To liberate words means first to shatter their……" — Thomas Harrison
"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
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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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the…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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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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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 Function Quotes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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