Quotes about Metaphor

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

Door in the Dark: In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got in past my guard, And hit me a blow in the head so hard I had my native simile jarred. So people and things don't pair any more With what they used to pair with before.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

One problem with Yahweh, as they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts, is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact. And when he said, "I am God," a voice was heard to say, "You are mistaken, Samael." "Samael" means "blind god": blind to the infinite Light of which he is a local historical manifestation. This is known as the blasphemy of Jehovah—that he thought he was God.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.