“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
“Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for… — Gayle Forman 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
“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
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
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
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 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
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 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
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion—that central element of fiction—derives not from… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the… — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.” — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way… — Agustin Gomez-Arcos Copy Share Image
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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