(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking fromThe weight of primary noon ...

It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world, otherwise known as night.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.