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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."

"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

"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 do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."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