Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.