Quotes By Thomas Harrison
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
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
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
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.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
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.
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
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
Thomas Harrison
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
Thomas Harrison