Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Jeanette Winterson

Tag: metaphor poet island jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry



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Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Margaret Atwood

Tag: metaphor



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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: humor memory metaphor recollection hippo



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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Pierre Bourdieu

Tag: mind metaphor



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

Siri Hustvedt

Tag: love poetry metaphor anatomy



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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes Pinto

Tag: passion metaphor envious



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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Joseph Campbell

Tag: metaphor attributed mysticism schizophrenia psychosis



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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Wallace Stevens

Tag: reality fiction metaphor



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The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods. 'Upon my word,' he said [...], 'I don't see that one's more true than another. Both are utterly false.

Virginia Woolf

Tag: language metaphor



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[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.'
His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?'
[Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it.

Blake Charlton

Tag: humor stupidity metaphor insults



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