Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but… — Anne Carson
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely… — Stephen Dobyns
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things… — Ann Brashares
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. — Tom Stoppard
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.… — James N. Frey
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of… — Susan Sontag
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. — Taylor Hackford
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked… — Nicole Krauss
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature… — Nicole Krauss
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat,… — Rorion Gracie
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. — Will Cotton
My fans have always loved my metaphors. — R. Kelly
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a… — Wyndham Lewis
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. — Aristotle
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard
He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith. — Mark Burnett
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology,… — Denis Donoghue
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn
Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear… — Tony Robbins

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