But phenomenology of the imagination cannot be content with a reduction which would make the image a subordinate means of expression: it demands, on the contrary, that images live directly, that they be taken as sudden events in life. When the image is new, the world is new.
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1994, p. 47)
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command of metaphor
It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so forth. But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
—Aristotle, Poetics, translated by S. H. Butcher, Section III, Part XXII
—Aristotle, Poetics, translated by S. H. Butcher, Section III, Part XXII
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