The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.
Imagination, Metaphor, Writing
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
Nature
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Money
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Literature, Civilization
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