Facts about Thomas Harrison

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Thomas Harrison is a famous author from England.

Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Thomas, under the main topic Poetry.

13 Famous quotes by 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 the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem"

Thomas Harrison

"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret"

Thomas Harrison

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern"

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, chords, and instruments"

Thomas Harrison

"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays"

Thomas Harrison

"In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy"

Thomas Harrison

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed"

Thomas Harrison

"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information"

Thomas Harrison

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense"

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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed"

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 appear both arcane and archaic"

Thomas Harrison

"As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner"

Thomas Harrison

"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together"

Thomas Harrison