Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
Jeanette WintersonTag: metaphor poet island jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
Margaret AtwoodTag: metaphor
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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
Terry PratchettTag: humor memory metaphor recollection hippo
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
Pierre BourdieuMostra la citazione in tedesco
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
Siri HustvedtTag: love poetry metaphor anatomy
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes PintoThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph CampbellTag: metaphor attributed mysticism schizophrenia psychosis
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
Wallace StevensThe 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[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.
Tag: humor stupidity metaphor insults
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