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Metaphor Quotes by Jack Zipes
- The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to…
- Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
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- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan
- In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela
- Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers… — Terry McMillan
- Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball
- There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter… — Mark Burnett