“Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.” ThinkingArtMatterUseInformationEmotionalDrinkArt IsNo Matter WhatWineMetaphorGlassesPoetry IsBottlesDescribingWine GlassInformative Author:Nikki Giovanni
“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.” YearsI CanSometimesTurnsMy OwnNovelIssuesEmotionalMonthsPagesMetaphorEnormousReactionsResolveMy Own LifeEmotional Reactions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.” ArtStoriesProcessBrainEmotionalMessagesMetaphorMythPrimariesSymbolicSymbolic Meaning Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.” ThinkingKnowsEmotionalIntellectualConceptsMetaphorSuperiorsAppealsSuperhero Author:Kurt Busiek
“We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire - and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I'm interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.” CharacterDesireStrongTroubleEmotionalMetaphorWildernessSurvivorFar AwaySurviving Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell