13 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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