I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land… — Bruce-Novoa Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.” — Dorothy Gambrell Copy Share Image
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers." Let's be real. Fact is, we… — Vera Nazarian 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
“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
