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Thomas Harrison

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

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Akiroq Brost

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Akiroq Brost

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

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"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

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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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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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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."
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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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"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
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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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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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