Quotes About Metaphor

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.

It doesn't pose or represent the world. It becomes.

In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats. Nothing

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

Como si la plenitud del alma no se desborda algunas veces en las metáforas más vacías

Bisognava ridurre alle loro giuste proporzioni i discorsi esagerati che nascondono affetti mediocri. Come se la piena del cuore traboccasse talvolta nelle metafore più vacue. Giacché nessuno ha mai l'esatta misura dei propri bisogni, delle proprie idee, dei propri dolori, giacché la parola umana è come una caldaia incrinata sulla quale battiamo per cavare, alla fine, una musica capace di far ballare gli orsi: e dire che, invece, vorremmo intenerire le stelle!

La felicidad es como la sífilis. Si la contraes demasiado pronto te echa a perder la constitución.

ca ÅŸi cum preaplinul sufletului nu s-ar rev?rsa câteodat? prin metaforele cele mai g?unoase, fiindc? nimeni, niciodat?, nu poate da m?sur? exact? a nevoilor, nici a concepÅ£iilor, nici a durerilor sale, iar cuvântul omenesc este ca un ceaun dogit în care batem ritmuri de ursari, când de fapt am râvni s? înduio??m stelele.

It is not unusual for the central menace of a work of horror fiction to be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.

The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Metaphors are the means by which the oneness of the world is poetically brought about.

What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer. It is Bloodless, who drank life from human thought and thereby got limbs of metals, stone and wood; it is Bloodless, who by human thought gained strength, which man himself does not physically possess. Bloodless reigns in Motala, and through the large foundries and factories he extends his hard limbs, whose joints and parts consist of wheel within wheel, chains, bars, and thick iron wires.

Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.

killing the allegorical two birds with one stone, which was a really violent and weird image when you stopped and thought about it. You throw a stone and kill two birds—and this is a good thing?

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Sports is a terrific metaphor that's hardly been touched on TV.

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.