Force Quote by R. S. Thomas

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

— Owen Barfield

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

— Adrienne Rich

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let…

— Andrei Tarkovsky