The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.
In plain words
Being good with word-pictures is the greatest skill of all.
Where these words come from
- 90% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Poetics, Ch. XXII (Bekker 1459a), S.H. Butcher translation, 1895 (public domain, via Project Gutenberg).
- Poetics
- c. 335 BCE · Athens · lecture notes on the art of poetry, delivered at the Lyceum
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