“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Living life in the front row is a metaphor for getting close to what makes us come alive.” — Jon Vroman Copy Share Image
“The opportunity felt too perfect to refuse. Only later did he realize it had never asked for permission.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour: love is a clash of lightnings,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that… — Spencer Johnson Copy Share Image
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity. — George Takei Copy Share Image
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height! — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown” — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
“The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.” — e lockhart Copy Share Image
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
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