Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

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.

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

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

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

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

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

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

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

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

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.

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.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Where theres a will theres a relative.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

Taylor Swift is cool. And I like her music. She's a great performer, and she's fun to listen to at times.

Being Jamaican isn't just a nationality. It's an experience you have to love it to understand.

My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

What would dawn have been like had you awakened It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

I trust that I know a good part when I see one, and usually, when I see one, I have to wait for seven people to pass in order for me to get it.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Everything is temporary; Emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!