Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
“The darkness surrounding can envelop one,but if you light only one match, you have defeated it all.” — M.I.M. Răphæl Copy Share Image
“Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
“You might be surrounded in a room of utter darkness, but if you light only one match, all the darkness is defeated.” — Michelle Ivezic Copy Share Image
I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
