“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its… — David Barton Copy Share Image
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
“The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
