I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.
You don't organize metaphors. . . you explode them.
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe in autonomy. And in the end, perhaps that idea of interconnectedness is a moral position.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.
My fans have always loved my metaphors.