An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of… — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes… — Alistair Gray Copy Share Image
“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.” — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Extended metaphor is like a carton of milk without an expiration date.” — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
![“"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.” quote by Ladyhawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ea/ladyhawke-16375_cleansing_the-river-song-is-also-yes-very-metaphor_2561709.jpg)
