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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. - Aristotle, Poetics (XXII) Metaphor gives light and strength to description. - John Brent The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. - Thomas Carlyle An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and unfamiliar ideas, which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to. - John Locke (1) Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. - James Russell Lowell A world ends when its metaphor has died. - Archibald MacLeish Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. - Archbishop Richard Whately
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