Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 91
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, book Nature
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Context: Every poem that works is like a metaphor of the whole mind writing, the solution of all the oppositions and imbalances going on at that time. When the mind finds the balance of all those things and projects it, that’s a poem. It’s a kind of hologram of the mental condition at that moment, which then immediately changes and moves on to some other sort of balance and rearrangement. What counts is that it be a symbol of that momentary wholeness. That’s how I see it.
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Christopher Tilley (1955) British postprocessual archaeologist.
[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]
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“A metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world.”
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&quot;&pg=PA110#v=onepage" <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)