"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."

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Umberto Eco

#Reading Quotes #Different Quotes #Poetic Quotes

“Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.”
“I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.”
“I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.”

Source : Carolee Schneemann (2010). “Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises”, State Univ of New York Pr
“And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.”
“We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.”
“My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.”
“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”
“Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.”

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