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Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's

“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”

“truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.”

Lost Force Illusion Forgotten Metaphor Metals Worn Coins Deprived Worn Out Sensuous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”

Needs May Children Doe Art Poetry Sex Creativity Creative Poet Baby Labor Metaphor Motherhood Pregnancy Fulfilling Privileged Sailing Slurs Yeats Byzantium

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.”

Religion Metaphor Theology

Author:Mason Cooley

“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”

Culture Social Cases Impossible Civilization Disease Concepts Crisis Metaphor Obvious Disorder Domain

Author:Johan Huizinga

“When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.”

People Needs Looks May Long Two Ends Running Turns Sides Realizing Audience Metaphor Long Runs Two Sides

Author:Deborah Tannen

“The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.”

People Spirituality Christ Church Identity Essentials Seasons Unions Metaphor Primaries Theme Resurrection Easter Easter Season

Author:Robert E. Webber

“The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.”

Firsts Christian Used Religious First Time Court Metaphor Boards Divorced Board Of Education

Author:David Barton

“I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.”

Thinking Christian Found Religious Wall Areas Tasks Constitution Court Metaphor Separation Phrases Invocation

Author:Potter Stewart

“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”

Life I Can Life Is Impossible Goes On Rounds Metaphor Following Determined Opponents Boxing Bells Propositions Life Is Like Matched

Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.”

Would Be Literature One Thing Metaphor Employment Simile

Author:Ogden Nash

“The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Political Guy Suicide Metaphor Debt Flying Horrible Bombs Law Enforcement Avenues Ceilings Pennsylvania Debt Ceiling Debacles

Author:Charlie Cook

“The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.”

Ifs Seems Views Common Existence Claims Metaphor Point Of View Make Sense Dramatic Plot Paradox Betray Dominant Relativism

Book:Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

Source: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

“I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks the fence and you don't know which side she's going to come down on. She's totally independent. And let's face it, she's badass.”

Knows Use Faces Sides Walks Cat Independent Metaphor Sense Of Humor Fence Badass Sly Catwoman

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.”

Cities Metaphor Obvious Arteries

Author:Geoffrey West

“Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.”

Has Beens Use Used Courses Fiction Standards Metaphor Sensuality Devices Pioneers Chaucer Literary Devices

Author:Joanne Harris

“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”

Has Beens Term Events Mere Metaphor Literary Terms

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Whole School Purpose Turns Education Learning Wall Window Mirrors Metaphor Educational Mathematical Classroom Graduation Educator Education System Self Education Great Education Good Education Teaching And Learning Education And Teachers Columnists Schools And Education Great Educational Teaching And Education Teaching Education Teacher Student School Life Children Learning Inspirational Education Formal Education Children Education High School Graduation Students And Education Inspirational Graduation Student Learning Children And Education Value Of Education Purpose Of Education Graduation Day Free Education Inspiring Education Teaching Students School Years Early Education First Day Of School What Is Education Adult Education Great Schools School Graduation Schools And Teachers Academic Education Cool Graduation Investment In Education Compulsory Education Graduating Seniors Inspirational School Educational Technology Classes In School

Book:Pieces of Eight Pa

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“Metaphors convince at once or not at all.”

Metaphor Convince

Author:Mason Cooley

“Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.”

Miracle Metaphor Transcendence

Author:Mason Cooley

“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”

Certain Events Advantage Metaphor Literal

Author:Mason Cooley

“I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.”

People Way Metaphor Junk Junk Food

Author:William H. Macy

“The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.”

States Church Wall Metaphor Separation Church And State Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State Freedom Of Religion

Author:William Rehnquist

“A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.”

Ifs Wells May Whole Belief Company Comfort Essentials Standards Expectations Presses Metaphor Reasonable Moderates Something Better Sustenance Picnics Sanguine

Author:P. D. James

“The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.”

Thinking I Can Problem Solutions Metaphor Solve Thread Crystals Formation Genesis Clusters

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.”

Energy Style Objects Intellectual Metaphor Sensible Vivacity

Author:Richard Whately

“The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.”

Two Ideas Sides Metaphor Simile

Book:Style: The Art of Writing Well

Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well

“Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.”

Writing Stories Voice Answers Color Depends Metaphor Determine Sensibility Diction

Author:Philip Gerard

“It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.”

Metaphor

Book:Shadow Scale

Source: Shadow Scale

“Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.”

Way Want Giving Joy Love You Metaphor Beloved Breastfeeding

Author:Marni Jackson

“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”

Ifs World Humans Seems Animal This World Fit Notion Metaphor Supposed To Be Men Women Prevailing

Author:Theodora

“I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.”

States Dream Running Lying Morning Lucky Bed Picks Ears Wake Up Theater Metaphor Awake Waking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.”

Ifs Stories Pure Metaphor Valuable Symbols Comic Poetry Is Motion Pictures Valuable Things Comic Strips

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc., is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.”

Believe Ends Use Style Don't Believe Metaphor Heavy Characteristics Etc Vocabulary Supplies Lyrical Deployment Idiom

Author:Lydia Davis

“I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.”

Thinking Knows Littles Steps Building Mines Happenings Metaphor Brands Wow Really True Building A Business Building A Brand

Author:Karen Walker

“If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us.”

Ifs Believe Asks Water Source Ocean Metaphor Glasses

Author:Wayne Dyer

“50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.”

Names Projects Metaphor Active Cents Gangsters Being Cool Forts

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can't just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.”

Want I Can Together Guy Crazy Materials Type Music Is Metaphor Albums Rap Rapper Other Guys Being Crazy Really True

Author:Schoolboy Q

“Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.”

Thinking Art Matter Use Information Emotional Drink Art Is No Matter What Wine Metaphor Glasses Poetry Is Bottles Describing Wine Glass Informative

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.”

Thinking Way Made Life Is Air Color Grew Grew Up Metaphor Sugar Delicate Old Fashioned Candy Cotton Rainy Rainy Day Cotton Candy

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.”

May Two Names Horse Metaphor Communism Sail Breeze Untruth Satyagraha

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.”

People Thinking Knows Used Stuff Grew Grew Up Unique Embrace Metaphor Relate Relatable

Author:Hoodie Allen

“When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.”

People Real Use Christian Language Metaphor Buddhist Faithful Real Buddhist

Author:Patch Adams

“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.”

People Home Night Certain Order Community Rooms Numbers Streets Fit Racism Metaphor Highways Infrastructure Public Life Classism

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.”

Years I Can Sometimes Turns My Own Novel Issues Emotional Months Pages Metaphor Enormous Reactions Resolve My Own Life Emotional Reactions

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.”

Ifs Giving Form Young Metaphor Diets Metaphorical Young Writers

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.”

“I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.”

Thinking Knows Looks Kind Littles Jobs Actors Bits Pieces Conditions Possibility Little Bit Metaphor Meat Ingredients Chef Potatoes

Author:Lars von Trier

“Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.”

Thinking Should Fiction Raises Science Fiction Metaphor Guides Theme Sci Fi Predictions

Author:Peter Singer

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