Quotes about Metaphors

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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman
Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll l — John Donne, The Complete English Poems
Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolken — Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that i — Philip Pullman
That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff abo — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way. — Joyce Rachelle
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are no — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction — G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live mo — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a boo — Richie Norton
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section. — Joyce Rachelle
Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly — Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat
A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I — Sanhita Baruah
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’ — John Green
What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors a — Erik Pevernagie
...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers. — Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual — Mary Ellen Hannibal, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction