Quotes about Metaphor

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Suppose a cannibal eats a Christian, and suppose the cannibal is then himself converted. The Christian's body has become part of the cannibal's body; who will have which bits at the resurrection?

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?

Paul is not simply invoking a "cultic metaphor" alongside a "law court" metaphor, on the one hand, and a "slave market" metaphor, on the other. He is thinking of the restoration of true cult, true worship: the one God cleansing people from defilement so that the true meeting, the heart of the covenant, may take place at last.

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,