A banal metaphor?

I'm planning on using the literary anthology as my controlling metaphor. While a figurative comparison between a collection of texts (an anthology) and a collection of texts (my portfolio) may be slightly literal, I nevertheless like the idea. Creative? Maybe not. But after fleshing the concept out a little, many possibilities arise. Under such a governing metaphor, each component gains the potential to display revealing correlations between my favorite works and my own evidence of personal development.