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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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"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."
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"In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect."
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"Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."
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"It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think."
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"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."
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"The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours."
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"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."
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"I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit."
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"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."
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"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."
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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."
Effect
"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."
Idea
"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
"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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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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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
Sense
"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
Metaphor
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