Up: [[Metaphor]] > [!Orbit] Aristotle > The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. > [!Orbit] Aristotle > To make a good metaphor is holy labour. > [!Orbit] Aristotle > Metaphor is what language uses to prove that the world is full of hidden connections. > [!Orbit] Orion Scott Card > Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. > [!Orbit] Robert Frost > An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. > [!Orbit] James Geary > A metaphor is both detour and destination, a digression that gets to the point. > [!Orbit] Oliver Goldsmith > The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances. > [!Orbit] Robin Morgan > Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. > [!Orbit] Margaret Lee Runbeck > Metaphors are the diplomats of rhetoric; they lead you urbanely to the brink, but it is you who states some unique conclusion to your own discovering self. > [!Orbit] Twyla Tharp in *The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life* > Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. > [!Orbit] Mary Ruefle, poet > Metaphor is not and never has been a mere literary term. It is an event. A poem must rival a physical experience and metaphor is simply an exchange of energy between two things. If you believe that metaphor is an event and not just a literary term, then you must conclude that a certain philosophy arises: the philosophy that everything in the world is connected. > [!Orbit] Mark Doty > Metaphor is an act of inquiry. The art of description is the art of perception. What is required in order to say what you see is enhanced attention to that looking and the more you look the more information you get. To be better at description we have to work at attentiveness. Far from just being better ways to make meaning seem more attractive, figurative speech itself means and means intensely. It’s one of the writer’s primary tools for conveying the texture of experience and for inquiring into experience in search of meaning. Every achieved poem or story inscribes a perceptual signature in the world. The work of seeing offers, ultimately, a precise portrayal of the one who’s doing the looking. > [!orbit] James Hillman in *Re-Visioning Psychology* > Naming with images and metaphors has an advantage over naming with concepts, for personified namings never become mere dead tools. Images and metaphors present themselves always as living psychic subjects with which I am obliged to be in relation. > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in *Conscious Femininity* > If you imagine the uninhabited body as sort of an empty hole, you see people try to fill it in different ways. But the soul in the body is left empty. My answer to that is that the real food of the soul is metaphor. The whole world of dreams is a metaphorical, symbolic one. Religion is based on symbol. Art, music, poetry, the whole creative world, the world of the soul is based on it. > [!Orbit] Jill Mellick in *The Art of Dreaming* > Metaphor is the literal language of the soul. Poets do not try to think up metaphors. They think in metaphors. (p. xiv) > [!Orbit] George Eliot in *The Mill on the Floss* > We can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else.