Tomorrow is but a metaphor to a door that may never open.
Know a man by his metaphors.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Wood’s review is what got me started reading Tolstoy in the first pla...
. . . I realized with a growing and startling sense of clarity that the seminary was educating and training me for a world that no longer existed. Moreover, the posture of this particular brand of Christianity toward the surrounding culture was one o...
[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, tr...
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten ...
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
