I think the business of making metaphors almost inevitably involves distortion or exaggeration.
Movies have been making metaphors of food since Charlie Chaplin ate his shoe in "The Gold Rush".
Making metaphors out of women comes more easily to me than telling a story with both men and women.
"For me, art is about making metaphors, and to do that you feed on new sources of information," said Mr. Fox, who has served as a field lecturer for the Lubbock program.
Another way that the aged can create powerful artistic images, Mr. Kaminsky said, was by making "metaphors of self" - taking familiar artifacts from their lives and shaping them into symbolic objects.
But France remained essentially Yonville, as I discovered it one afternoon decades ago, and it seemed to me that at the same time I came upon the craft of making metaphors and upon myself.
The pattern of the language includes the vocabulary, positive affirmation and making metaphors.
As so often, Kahlo makes metaphor literal.
Amichai's genius lies in how — to borrow from his own language — he makes metaphor "useful".
And, as if to make metaphor out of that reality, the play's title character (Wrenn Schmidt) is revealed to be as vulnerable and unstable as a teacup.
"It's a gripping account both of humanity's inhumanity and the potential for resistance, underpinned by science fiction's ability to make metaphor literal," said Butler.
