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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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Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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