“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.” KnowsSpiritOne ThingPoetMetaphorUrgesPoeticLike SomethingMarkersUranium Author:Tony Hoagland
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.” PoetryPoetHigherMetaphorAlgebra Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.” NeedsMayChildrenDoeArtPoetrySexCreativityCreativePoetBabyLaborMetaphorMotherhoodPregnancyFulfillingPrivilegedSailingSlursYeatsByzantium Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.” KnowsWorldStreetsPoetLowsTheaterMetaphorSingersRemarkableFarmersRiceGreat PoetBangladeshHighs And LowsGreat PoetryPoetry And MusicSweepers Author:Jean Houston
“Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.” ThinkingWorldWayPoetMetaphorAllowingUnusualFluid Author:James Geary
“Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.” WayDifferentUseFormPoetMetaphorConstructsSymbolismUsing Me Author:Shirin Neshat
“I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldStoriesUseShowsKidsTogetherSpeakInterestingKnow HowPoetMusic IsLettersMetaphorCome UpReally InterestingAlphabet Author:Terry Bozzio
“I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.” ThinkingPurposePoetArgumentMetaphorMake SenseProseGet AwayConvincing Author:David Biespiel
“I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.” PeopleWorldWritingTryingImportantPoetMetaphorTensionHelpful Author:David Biespiel
“I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose work has been important to me. But I'm not sure that I do see poetry as a world apart. Some of my metaphors are based in the fantastic, but I try to be true to life as I understand it. That understanding is affected by my Canadianness, my Americanness, my whiteness, my gender, my age, my education, my experience...everything about me affects my view of reality. But I try to wrestle against those partialities, not embrace them.” WorldTryingImportantRealityAgeChristianUnderstandingPoetEmbraceMetaphorGenderBeing TrueFantasticNot SureTrue LifePartiality Author:James Arthur