"A poem is good if it contains a……" — Thomas Ernest Hulme
"A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters."
More Analogies Quotes
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies… — Stefan Banach
- The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot… — Giacomo Casanova
- I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all… — A. R. Ammons
- About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of… — William Stanley Jevons
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only… — Henri Poincare
- Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look… — Gian-Carlo Rota
- Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,… — Humphry Davy
- The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of… — Arthur Koestler
- You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies… — Michael Faraday
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy… — Gerhard Richter