I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a… — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“If the invariable human problem with the sacred is its intangibility, its elusiveness, here all complaints are surely laid to rest. For… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“The ocean turned feral. No longer a cradle, it grew claws and fangs.” — Deni Ar Dente Copy Share Image
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
