“A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.” LooksArtMysteryExpressionMetaphorCriticalParadoxDiscourseSyntaxTautology Author:Denis Donoghue
“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.” WayStudyFateMysteryLessonsApproachMurderSeriesMetaphorVarietyCombinationManifestationPeculiarHobbiesPsychicsEccentricOne WomanUnexplainedForensicsMurder Mysteries Author:Robert Gottlieb
“Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.” DoeEnoughPlayWholeDoubtMysteryTheorySorrowRainTheaterMetaphorDefenseCertaintyConstructionTidesSunlightFogShiftingBrightness Author:Mark Doty
“I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.” ThinkingInterestingMusicOur LivesMysteryJourneyMusicianMetaphorLabyrinth Author:Sting
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.” ThinkingWayHumansSelfHelpingMysteryAspectProfoundMetaphorMythMysteriousReachingComparisonWay Of ThinkingComprehensionAnalogiesUntruthProfound Truth Author:Christopher Vogler
“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.” MysteryExampleObjectsHorseMetaphorWorthyGenerosityContemplationUnpredictability Author:Jane Smiley
“Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.” LanguageMysteryHonestMetaphorAvailable Book:Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self Source: Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self