As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.
The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
