Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Symbols are valuable tools of communication. Symbols communicate truth concisely, and they communicate it graphically. In Revelation 11 the apostle John could… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The proper method of interpreting the symbols in Revelation involves two steps. The first is to remember that when symbols are employed,… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Ernest Hemingway, much like the Artisan hero in his novel, A Farewell to Arms, wanted to avoid figurative language (the language of… — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
