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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. — Aharon Appelfeld
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative… — Pat Pattison
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of… — Damon Albarn
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
All words, in every language, are metaphors. — Marshall McLuhan
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
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
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
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas
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
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 ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually… — Saul Bass
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Metaphor is embodied in language. — Dennis Potter
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… — Rumi
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary… — Rick Warren
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about… — Noah Cicero
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind. — Laurie Cabot
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these… — Polly Young-Eisendrath
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic,… — Elisabeth Leamy
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. — Victor Hugo

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