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Metaphor Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into…
- A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic…
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to…
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
More Metaphor Quotes
- 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
- 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
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
- There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets… — Kris Carr