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- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;…
- 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes…
- We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance…
- It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite…
- Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
- To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is…
- In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards…
- Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making…
- The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries,…
- The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an…
- Sherlock Holmes: She is a lovely woman, Watson, with a face that a man might die for. Dr. John Watson: A face a man might…
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… — Unknown Author
- In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela
- 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
- 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