Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

I like to play with tropes.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.

I like poems that are complex.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: 'Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.'

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts.

There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.