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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. ↗


— Rex Harrison


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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗


— Thomas Harrison


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


— Thomas Harrison


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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. ↗


— Zora Neale Hurston


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Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗


— Thomas Harrison


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To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗


— Thomas Harrison


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Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together. ↗


— Thomas Harrison


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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. ↗


— Thomas Harrison


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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. ↗


— William Henry Harrison


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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. ↗


— William Henry Harrison


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