Quote by Rae Armantrout Download Open image ““Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”” — Rae Armantrout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright… — Alistair Gray Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. Maybe we needed to give shape to the opaque, deep-down pain that evades both sense… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
