“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.” WritingIdeasEndsCharacterFormOrderFightingBlackWaterImaginationMemoriesFireBattleShapesPaperLaborLogicSightArmyMetaphorSpreadRageMarchFlagsMagnificentInkLegendaryPowderWagonsArtilleryCavalry Author:Honore de Balzac
“Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.” PeopleGivingStoriesPurposeMemoriesStagePerceptionInstitutionsStructureMetaphorMythMythologyAspirationMapsRitualRationaleStages Of Life Book:The passionate life: stages of loving Source: The passionate life: stages of loving
“Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.” KnowsWorldMemoriesMetaphorGhostOur WorldRemembrance Author:Leslie What
“Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.” SometimesHomeMemoriesArgumentMetaphorGunpowder Book:Essays, English and American Source: Essays, English and American
“The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory” HumansBookIdeasLanguageMemoriesForgottenMetaphorCollectingCemetery Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.” WaySelfHomeBodyMovingMemoriesMy OwnExistenceExpressionLongingMetaphorYour BodyRhythmMy WayEstatesOur MemoriesEcstaticLandlord Author:Gabrielle Roth
“Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.” RealCultureProcessMemoriesTakenMetaphorMapsTransmissionMutationContagionAudioMusic Culture Author:Kode9
“The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.” PeopleThinkingSometimesMemoriesRoomsShareMetaphorAbstractEnginesDay To Day Author:Mike Watt