Jason Reynolds Quotes

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

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

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

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

Metaphor is embodied in language.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

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

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

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.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.