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Quotation from Poetics by Aristotle

“But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.”

Aristotle

Poetics, Chapter XXII, trans. S. H. Butcher

Portrait of Aristotle

Discussing poetic diction, Aristotle calls metaphor the one gift that cannot be learned from another, a mark of genius and of an eye for resemblances.

Citation: "But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor." — Aristotle, Poetics, Chapter XXII, trans. S. H. Butcher. (id aristotle-poetics-q8)

Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.

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