Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.