Metaphor Quotes - Page 9

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

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

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

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

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.