Bangladesh Quote by Jean Houston

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

— Neil Gaiman

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are , and it…

— Neil Gaiman

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most…

— Derrick Jensen

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet…

— Simon Kinberg

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

— Vicki Lewis Thompson

I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've…

— Sarah Kay

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up…

— William Stafford

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird fluttering in…

— Victoria Alexander

"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world…

— Harriet Monroe

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden