Quotes About Metaphor

Her face is rounder than the moon

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves

A snake is summer's treason

It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.

Minigolf," she said with stone seriousness, "is a metaphor for life." I smiled and said, "Oh, really?" "Yes. I mean, think about it….Do you take it seriously? Too seriously? Do you enjoy it? Do you keep careful score? Do you get upset when you lose? Do you cheat? And if you do cheat, how do you react when you're busted? Are you sheepish? Sorry? Do you do it again?

I think the sea's just rain and salt." "Ever taste a tear?" asks Grandma. "Yeah." "Well, that's the same as the sea." I still don't want to walk in it if it's tears.

La relación de unas cosas con otras iba borrando, poco a poco, las cosas. Versos sin palabras. Formas sin figuras. No bien partía un barco de oro de la orilla cuando ya no era orilla ni barco ni partía.

What's this? he inquired, none too pleasantly. A circus? No, Julius. It's the end of the circus. I see. And these are the clowns? Foaly's head poked through the doorway. Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")

T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

Aubade" As I would free the white almond from the green husk So I would strip your trappings off, Beloved. And fingering the smooth and polished kernel I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting. Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

To grasp the implications of the comparison—the term "parable" comes from the Greek para, "along side, together with," as in "parallel" or "paradox," and balo, "to cast," "to throw"—we need to understand the nuances of each side of the equation. We immediately realize that, with such comparisons, no single meaning can ever be determined, just as no single metaphor or simile can be restricted.

Les tortues ne participent pas à l'athlétisme

Cada naranja es una taza de sangre

Life Is, a Rose.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Leroi-Gourhan écrit que, dans l'art des cavernes, signe féminin et blessure sont interchangeables : pour signifier la même idée, l'artiste, le penseur, l'écrivain paléolithique pouvait indifféremment figurer une vulve, une vache transpercée, le sang qui dégoutte d'une flèche. La vulve, le dol, la bête sous le merlin, le sang, sont synonymes ("Corps du roi", 40).

The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.