Thomas Harrison Quotes

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.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

Two, After, Champions

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

Poetry, Sense, Message

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

Done, Corner, Witnesses

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

Experience, Expect, Series

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

Age, History, Experience

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

Toward, Recent, Lyric

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

Write, Film, Directors

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

Art, Poetry, Language

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

Far, Among, Piece

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

Question, Actually, Remains

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

Hope, Words, Regret

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

Together, Try, Images

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

Find, Question, Reading

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