“...the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“If you want to be easily forgotten, do not add any value anywhere, but if you want to be a success, add value as much as you can.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“…we use metaphor to help portray an integrated sense of the world to ourselves and to each other. Sense is different from truth, even though we might sometimes think of them as being the same. Where ‘truth’ claims to be absolute, ‘sense’ recognises relativity…”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“She was foolish to be walking alone at this ungodly hour when demi-gods like himself roamed in search of prey. He would pick this flower, uproot her from the soil. He would part her from her source of life. Her head, hands, and feet were the soft petals, her blood the sweet nectar. She walked by him, ignorant of the brutality that would soon befall her.”
Source: Vampires of Twilight Castle
“Nothing is more certain than that this trope [metaphor], when temperately and appositely used, serves to add light to the expression and energy to the sentiment. On the contrary, when vaguely and intemperately used, nothing can serve more effectually to cloud the sense, where there is sense, and by consequence to conceal the defect, where there is no sense to show.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“...when a person, instead of adopting metaphors that come naturally and opportunely in his way, rummages the whole world in quest of them, and piles them one upon another; when he cannot so properly be said to use metaphor as to talk in metaphor, or rather when from metaphor he runs into allegory, and thence into enigma, his words are not the immediate signs of his thought; they are at best but the signs of the signs of his thought.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“...all humans are given the same set of primary-metaphor building blocks, but different language and cultural groups put the blocks together in different ways. Some individuals even force the blocks together in ways that don’t fit – which is the major reason we get mixed metaphors.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“The ‘death’ of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. ‘Dead’ metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally ‘outlive’ the specific words and expressions that involve them.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“Mixed metaphors with two source domains that don’t make sense together, […] are the structures that most deserve the name ‘mixed metaphors’.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse