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"Poetic language uses the same conceptual and linguistic apparatus as ordinary language...because metaphors are part of our ordinary mode of thought." (158)

"When a reader gives a highly unusual or idiosyncratic construal of a poem, he is sometimes accused of "reading meanings into" the poem that are not "really there." But, because of the nature of language, all reading is reading in. Even if one sticks to the conventional, shared meanings of the words, one will necessarily be evoking all of the knowledge in the schemas in which those words are defined." (109)