Quotes About Metaphor

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather.

it's the best fish I've ever caught, that fish I didn't catch, cause it's a fish that will always be with me now and never be eaten, it'll never die, that fish I'll never land.

Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird

In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the part of poetry remains small. Metaphors are to argot what the image of the Gypsy is to the Gypsy

Your grandmother's being bedridden has no more to do with it than the cat." Lydia was prone to seek the cat for exquisite comparison. Persons, with her, could no more sing—or dance—than the cat. She found the cat, in the way of metaphor, a mysteriously useful animal.

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

Essa iconoclastia ainda espreita em toda parte, e o diabo é o literalismo. Quando tomamos as coisas literalmente, aniquilamos o poder dos símbolos de nos fazer percorrer os vários níveis de entendimento.

having had the gleam taken out of her to the point where she resembles twilight

I always speak to myself no more myself but a colander draining the sound from this never-to-be-mentioned wound

The pain in my stomach had come back and in the form of birds trying to peck their way out of my body.

You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

A story is a strong bridge across the night.

The lions are now lunching with the lambs.

We're like—we're like the Backstreet Boys in a way—only dead.

Si soy agua, ¿qué sentido tiene decirte que sí, que voy a casarme contigo? Ésa sí sería una mentira. El agua no puede retenerse. Sí, te regaré, te prodigaré con mi riqueza, te refrescaré, saciaré tu sed, pero qué sé yo lo que será el curso de mi río, nunca te bañarás dos veces en la misma novia. 

Enfler » doit être le verbe correct. Je prends de plus en plus de volume, comme si un big bang intérieur avait eu lieu lors de mon arrivée en Irak.

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best.

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth".

When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.