Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
Neil GaimanTags: truth lies metaphor rumors
The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...
Lauren OliverIf Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
Vera NazarianTags: music road rock-music folk-music metaphor jazz rock wilderness wild place genre city musical temple rock-and-roll classical-music folk classical jazz-music motif
Oh, love is a journey with water and stars,
with drowning air and storms of flour:
love is a clash of lightnings,
two bodies subdued by one honey.
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
Annie DillardTags: science geography water metaphor snail sea-lion systems-analyst
It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow--such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.
Elissa Janine HooleTags: metaphor
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
J.R.R. TolkienTags: sadness cynicism metaphor bitterness
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-TTags: censorship metaphor controversy racism rap
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei CodrescuI found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
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