What did Max Black mean by: Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. - Max Black Copy
+ Fine doesn’t mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Max Black, Hate, Scales, 0 - Max Black
+ …a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Max Black, Metaphor, 0 - Max Black
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. - William P. Young Author · Canada
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
