“To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.”
“Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.”
“Real artists ship.”
“We couldn't see the real dark for the metaphorical dark. Because of the metaphorical dark, the death-dark, we were constantly concerned to banish the natural dark.”
“Because everything you perceive is a metaphor forsomething your brain is not equipped to fully understand.God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chairyou are sitting in. They are all metaphors for something youwill never understand.”
“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”