818 Quotes About Metaphor

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Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-

Metaphor shakes our bearings on the question of how we stand in relation to 'objective reality', and a metaphor inside a metaphor unfixes those bearings altogether; it makes us lose our direction-fix on the position of what is 'out there' in 'reality' and the position of our own consciousness of that.

...metaphor's power to collapse the wall between fact and fiction and between subject and object is brought into full play firstly by displaying the element of contriving, or of invention, which says of the contents of the poem, 'These contents are "framed".

Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.

We all are internal energy of the Universe -- and it's not even a metaphor -- there would be no dynamics whatsoever in the absence of us subjective participants.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.