Quotes About Metaphor

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.

It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.

She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green. She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris. She mixes my metaphors like a martini and serves up my heart tartare. They all do. Every time. They have to. It's that kind of story.

All the hair dye diluted itself into the sea a long time ago and I hope the jellyfish enjoyed their time as platinum blondes, I really and honestly do.

I've always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.

Do you understand Christ to be more like an ox (excuse us, three oxen) or more like a door?

let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.

He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.

A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.

Als ik me de wedergeboorte Gods voorstel, dan zie ik die niet in de mens. Het zou in een lam kunnen zijn, maar ik vind een ezel liever.

one's own past self (our/his childhood) and of bringing to light the relics of the childhood of humankind itself (Z 4302). Far from wanting to recirculate dead and devitalized forms—either in language or in existence—Leopardi uses the metaphor of fresh fruit preserved in winter,

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Aristotle wrote that metaphor is the hallmark of genius.

La Presidenta había sido muy gráfica explicando con metáforas deportivas por qué iban a descansar de los hombres por una temporada. Dijo que era como cuando en el béisbol había jugadores que se quedaban en el dog out. Las mujeres necesitaban que los hombres se quedaran en él temporalmente, porque aquel partido lo tenían que pichar, batear, cachar y correr las mujeres.

El pan que es ya santo sobre la mesa de casa, conviértese sobre la mesa de la Iglesia en el cuerpo inmortal de Cristo. También la moneda es el signo visible de una transustanciación; es la hostia infame del demonio. El dinero amonedado es el excremento corrompido del demonio

Actualmente, hablamos de lenguajes en plural, por tanto, de lenguajes cuyo significante no es la palabra: por ejemplo, el lenguaje del cine, de las artes figurativas, de las emociones, etcétera. Pero éstas son acepciones metafóricas. Pues el lenguaje esencial que de verdad caracteriza e instituye al hombre como animal simbólico es «lenguaje-palabra», el lenguaje de nuestra habla.

Si sta come d'autunno sugli alberi le foglie.

All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

Sometimes life is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the backs on five thousand turtles.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.