Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.
Maggie StiefvaterTag: humor diet metaphor cake frosting
Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.
Lee ArgusTag: life death darkness metaphor metaphorical lee-argus chance-escape orion-lee-argus
...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
Anne Rivers SiddonsHow had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.
Amitav GhoshTag: metaphor destiny separation girmitiya
Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,
Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;
Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure,
Nor any Forren mixtures can endure;
Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face
Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace,
Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize
But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes:
Those following Leaves display, if well observed,
How she long Her Maydenhead preserved,
How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell;
Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel,
Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree,
Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie.
Tag: poetry sea metaphor mythology venus venice spqr
GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…
Tom StoppardTag: life inspirational metaphor
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John GreenTag: life inspirational friendship growing-up metaphor
We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
I have no native tongue.
One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.
Em BaileyTag: metaphor sameness similarity
Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.
Ashly LorenzanaTag: nature sadness despair winter trees metaphor symbolism depression snow hopelessness leaves blizzard
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