“Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133
“Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.”
Quoted in Remembrance by Tom Johnson (September 1987)
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Context: The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our other faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or to break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands. A strange thing, indeed, the existence in man of this mental activity which substitutes one thing for another — from an urge not so much to get at the first as to get rid of the second.
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
