Best Metaphoric Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Sister of My Heart

“The samovar has been on the boil since before eight, but.. gone out... like everything else in the world. Even the sun, it's they say, will go out eventually. However, if necessary, I'll start it going again.”

Hope Resilience Melancholy Existential Introspection Impermanence Symbolism Literary Transience Metaphoric

Book:Demons

Source: Demons

“This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow.”

Men And Women Metaphoric Dogs And Cats

Book:The Waters

Source: The Waters

“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”

Men Made Seems Inspiring Magic Creation Inspire Creatures Tools Metaphor Verge Efficacy Metaphoric

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Doubt Treats Jew Expected Statements Sooner Or Later Metaphoric

Author:Bernard Malamud

“Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.”

Stories Literature Principles Sun Habit Conscious Concepts Tradition Structure Mythology Traditional Mature Metaphoric Sun God

Author:Northrop Frye

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.”

Ifs Mind Mean Children Persons Long Ego Mental Health Rational Executives Good Man Farmers Flexibility Equilibrium Homemaker Metaphoric

Author:Bob Samples

“Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person.”

Mind Humans Persons Whole Motivation Communication Rational Celebrate Appropriate Mentor Nurture Whole Person Metaphoric

Author:Bob Samples

“The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.”

Mind Children Seems Parent Logic Rational Embarrassed Rationality Metaphoric

Book:The metaphoric mind: a celebration of creative consciousness

Source: The metaphoric mind: a celebration of creative consciousness

“Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.”

“Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.”

Language Metaphor Comparison Metaphoric

Author:I. A. Richards

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

Love Firsts Dream Language Memories Dangerous Metaphor Poetic Unbearable Lightness Metaphorical Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness Metaphoric

Author:Milan Kundera

“A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.”

Doe Stills Form Voice Discovery Connections Gestures Metaphoric

Author:Robert Morgan

“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.”

May Different Reading Information Masters Function Forgotten Sparks Unforeseen Lexicon Metaphoric

Book:Diary of a Bad Year

Source: Diary of a Bad Year

“Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.”

Water Walks Journey Rivers Murder Chosen Genre Boards Consideration Shy Destination Enjoyable Tourists Bonus Stewards Genre Is Metaphoric Thursday Next

Author:Jasper Fforde

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

Literature Metaphor Slang Metaphors Of Life Metaphoric

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.”

Air Travel Studios Breathing Funny Travel Metaphoric

Author:Keren Ann

“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winnable, or winnable at a price we're willing to pay.”

People Ifs Mind War Might Certain Values Pay Willing Cost Conflict Survival Models Objectives Affected Copyright Business Models Metaphoric

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor”

Love Is Dangerous Metaphor Metaphorical Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness Metaphoric

Author:Milan Kundera

“Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.”

“Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.”

Doe Book Reason Faces Guy Levels Company Class Hero Smart Comic Comic Book Super Hero Smart Guy Metaphoric

Author:Chester Brown

“Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.”

People Firsts Humans Persons Jobs Violence Threat Occasions Willingness Thinker Continuity First Person Metaphoric

Author:Stanley Crouch