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“Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

People Writing Ideas Waiting Rocks Flower Quiet Stones Metaphor Strikes No Idea Weed Splits Snakes Reconcile

Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.”

People Stones Metaphor Reconcile

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.”

Stones Metaphor Architecture Symbols Steel Vocabulary

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

World Mind Humans Hair Lovers Stones Green Plant Metaphor Caught Flesh Golden Grey Stains Amber Reptiles

Book:A Stone Woman (Storycuts)

Source: A Stone Woman (Storycuts)

“That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.”

People Mind Ideas Sometimes Hard Together Beautiful Fighting Groups Team Argument Stones Metaphor Passionate Noise Working Together Polish Really Beautiful Team Working Working Really Hard

Author:Steve Jobs

“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.”

Thinking Way Problem Stones Weight Let Me Metaphor Deeds Release Remembered Gravity Way Of Thinking Single Word Let Me Down

Author:Jeanette Winterson