Metaphors Quote by Thomas Harrison

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

— Thomas Harrison

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

— Max Black

“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel…

— Shinji Moon

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the…

— Kendrick Lamar

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature of people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

— Milan Kundera

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

— Rodney Crowell

“Metaphor has a devilish way of blinding us to the truth.”

— Ka Wai Cheung

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a…

— Norman Mailer

“All the images lost to years               of being unread-                             the crack is wide enough                                           now               for metaphor and allegory to fall between-”

— Kenyatta García

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson