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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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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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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."
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"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."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
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"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
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"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
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"I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films."
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"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"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."
Age
"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
Metaphor
"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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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."
World
"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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"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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