Quotes about Metaphor

the girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli

In her way, her strangeness, her naïveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

A single metaphor can give birth to love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

The world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.