“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.” IfsOne ThingErrorsMetaphorAcceptedStatementsLatterAbsurdityLiteralAllegory Book:Matthew Arnold Source: Matthew Arnold
“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.” KnowsSpiritOne ThingPoetMetaphorUrgesPoeticLike SomethingMarkersUranium Author:Tony Hoagland
“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.” Would BeLiteratureOne ThingMetaphorEmploymentSimile Author:Ogden Nash
“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?” WayMindLooksDoeDifferentEasySoundOne ThingGroupsShadowOrganizationMetaphorFamiliarVampireAgendasMisunderstood Author:Alan Ball
“If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.” IfsKnowsMadeSaidIdeasRememberOne ThingMetaphorHeightAssociationFeats Author:Robert Frost