Homeopathy Quote by Rae Armantrout Download Open image “Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.” — Rae Armantrout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Homeopathy Looks Metaphor Ritual Sacrifice
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we… — George Lakoff 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 one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff 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 closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This can be good. It forces the poet and the audience to think. But it can also be dangerous. It can turn into a branding device so that potential readers believe they know all they need to… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. — 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
“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. — William James Copy Share Image
Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine. — Charles Frederick Menninger Copy Share Image
I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue… — James Randi Copy Share Image
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Homeopathy is the true and very advanced healing science much beyond the scope of current methods of chemical analysis and interpretation.” — Aditya Sardana Copy Share Image
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
