“The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14
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On how he employs metaphors in “Jericho Brown: ‘Poetry is a veil in front of a heart beating at a fast pace” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/28/jericho-brown-book-interview-q-and-a-new-testament-poetry in The Guardian (2018 Jul 28)

“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

[O] : Introduction, 0.2
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: The principle of interpretation says that "a sign is something by knowing which we know something more" (Peirce). The Peircean idea of semiosis is the idea of an infinite process of interpretation. It seems that the symbolic mode is the paramount example of this possibility.
However, interpretation is not reducible to the responses elicited by the textual strategies accorded to the symbolic mode. The interpretation of metaphors shifts from the univocality of catachreses to the open possibilities offered by inventive metaphors. Many texts have undoubtedly many possible senses, but it is still possible to decide which one has to be selected if one approaches the text in the light of a given topic, as well as it is possible to tell of certain texts how many isotopies they display.

Attributed to Tomas Bata at tomasbata.com, 2015
Attributed to Tomas Bata

“No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.”
20 December 1939
My Day (1935–1962)
"Glow, Big Glowworm", p. 264
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)