the muse's metaphors

Aristotle observed somewhere that the one essential gift for a poet (read imaginative author), the only one that could not be taught, was an eye for resemblances.

And the muse, being metaphorical herself, can come up with a number for the work of writing as well as the matter.  (Though, like all analogies, they are imprecise; a precise metaphor would cease to be a metaphor and become an identity.)
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