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No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
-Grace Paley
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No Metaphor Reinvents The Job Of The

Grace Paley
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
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The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. when we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
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Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. but have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... god preserve you - getting exasperated at them.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. if we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter. if we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother. if we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. and i rarely know the nature of the metaphor when i begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
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This is what metaphor is. it is not saying that an ant is an elephant. perhaps; both are alive. no. metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. now, logically speaking, i know there is a difference. if you put elephants and ants before me, i believe that every time i will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. so metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. it comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.
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The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. this means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. i think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. and when i try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.
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