There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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“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
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
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
“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
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary,… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
“Why did I do it?" I finally asked him. "Because you couldn't stand it, because you were choking, that's why. Perfectly understandable."… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson 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 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
Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills;… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it... But if it gets hit… — Tyler Hoyt Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the… — David Kord Murray Copy Share Image
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow… — Marion Woodman 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
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else… — Mackenzie Herbert Copy Share Image
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad 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
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things that aren’t your fault. Or mine, either. Not the fault of prophecies, or curses, or DNA,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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