"The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers."

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Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.43, Univ of California Press

Lyn Hejinian

#Poetry Quotes #Literature Quotes #Process Quotes

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.”
“So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.”
“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

Source : Interview for themes.org, www.jwz.org. June 1998.
“I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.”
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”
“Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me... Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief, And got his ***** directin' traffic in the heat for a week.”
“A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them”
“When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.”

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