Quotes About Metaphor

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Leave a log in the water as long as you like: it will never be a crocodile.

Down there came a fallow doeAs great with young as she might go.

We should all use suspenders to keep our souls from slipping down to our heels.

Styrofoam tombstones around the stage and angles the microwave-box-turned-sarcophagus so the audience can read its epitaph: Aethon: Lived 80 Years a Man, 1

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a metaphor for the way life must change from time to time if we are to go forward in our thinking.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

I embraced a cloud, but when I soared it rained.

history is God's love story. There is no event in space or time unrelated to the Jesus story, and there is no metaphor in existence unrelated to Jesus. "All

Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...

I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side.

Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it the animal.

Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.

Um livro deve ser o machado para o mar congelado dentro de nós.

ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als und, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.