Metaphor Quotes

561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors

All words, in every language, are metaphors. — Marshall McLuhan
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. — Walter Mosley
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy,… — James Hillman
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and… — James Geary
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the… — Fritjof Capra
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves… — Derek Walcott
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor — Milan Kundera
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning… — M. John Harrison
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol. — Lorna Dee Cervantes
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of… — Carly Simon
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the… — J. Cole
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe,… — Seth Lloyd
I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless… — James St. James
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that… — Christopher Langan
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. — John Philpot Curran
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant… — Aberjhani
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his… — Cleanth Brooks
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate,… — Marion Woodman
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las… — Neil Postman
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes

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