Margaret Atwood Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Optimistic, People

• Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

  Margaret Atwood

  Race, Differences, Language

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library

• The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Crystals, Problem

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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