The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to.... : Quote by Northrop Frye

“ The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know. ”

Northrop Frye
  • From : The Educated Imagination
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