"Glow, Big Glowworm", p. 264
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
“A metaphor is a sign of desperation when we need another world to describe what we are feeling. Metaphors are about desperation and safety. We call out to metaphor because a metaphor makes us feel safe.”
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)
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On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
" Education by Poetry http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html", speech delivered at Amherst College and subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (February 1931)
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Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14

“(on soccer) Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war.”
June 8, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Source: Alternating Current (1967)
Context: If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]

“We are passengers, comprehended and displaced by metaphor.”
Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 8, Performative Reflexivity, p. 137