Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Surface metaphors are those that we use in everyday language, such as “This problem is just the tip of the iceberg,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“Everything in life is metaphor… We accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Get real. They’ll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All language is a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it… — J. Cole 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
“A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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
“unless you're the lead dog the view never changes... mercy out does justice every time: always find your way back home/” — Bob Mitchley 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
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“The ocean turned feral. No longer a cradle, it grew claws and fangs.” — Deni Ar Dente 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
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
