Garth Greenwell Quotes

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Garth Greenwell

• Thinking
• Mean
• Reason
• Feelings
• Extending

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• I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Reason