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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."
"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
"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."
"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
"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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