Thomas Harrison Quotes

• 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.

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• A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.

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  Tags in Event, Germans, Cup, Champion

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

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  Tags in Poem, Conveys, Poetry, Message

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

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  Tags in Abiding, Concern

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

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  Tags in Function, Liberate, First, Regret

• Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

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  Tags in Metaphor, Fuse, Unlike, Images

• As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

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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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  Tags in Metaphorical, Lyric, Metaphor, Symbolic, Recent

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

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  Tags in Screenplays

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

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  Tags in Poem, Subjectivity, Historically

• 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.

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  Tags in Poem, Textual

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

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  Tags in Happenings, Ceded

• 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.

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Thomas Harrison (13)

Birth:	26th September, 1911
Death:	16th January, 1976
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Broadcaster, Explorer, Journalist, Soldier

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