Quotes About Metaphor

Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.

and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.

When the final moment came, signalled to him by the dramatic stoppage of her loud, rasping breathing (whereas their son had departed so quietly, like the petals of a flower falling off), he felt like a sheet of ice being rushed along a river.

The shit is not the shit, the pigeon is the shit.

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I like to use horror as allegory.

The hands are the feet of the arms.

The limbs of a dismembered poet.

Taking drugs to control a drug addiction is like swallowing a spider to catch a fly.)

there's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

A nut is good if broken, a women if beaten.

In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * *

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Puede que seas capaz de engullir el hueso a través de la garganta, pero si llega a tu estómago perforará tu ombligo.

La herrumbre nunca se volvió blanca al lavarla.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK.

The bowl is warmer than the soup.

Lo que va dentro de una mina de sal se convierte en sal.