Quotes About Metaphor

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

Life is just a bag of pot.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.

If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don't follow a tiger. Follow an elephant.

You are my butterfly, and I am your flower.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.