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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh”
Rhetoric, Book III, Ch. 10, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
Aristotle explains why apt metaphor pleases: it lets the hearer learn something new quickly.
Citation: "it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book III, Ch. 10, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q12)
