Tag: poetry
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Spirit is a Bone
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. Aristotle, Poetics, 1459a7-10, tr. by S.H. Butcher. One of the things I have been most perplexed by is the…
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