Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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