Quotes About Metaphor

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.

Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?

A beautiful bridge is a poem.

Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

Professors also read, and think, symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

we fill the nothing with suns, line them up, swallow sap, swallow field, drop by drop, each stem a pump. Rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx & anther, all summer gone.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

Una vez más, el fútbol como metáfora.

Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.