Quotes about metaphor
metaphor teach condensation
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. Walter Mosley
metaphor symbols
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry Jacob Bronowski
metaphor pretentious
You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green
metaphor prisoner
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking... R. Buckminster Fuller
metaphor dictionary
The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur
metaphor capacity full-life
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Joseph Chilton Pearce
metaphor masters
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle
metaphor constructs trapped
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. Robert Anton Wilson
metaphor simile knows
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. Tim Vine
metaphor organize
You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them. Ray Bradbury
metaphor program capacity
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. Seth Lloyd
metaphor i-can
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor. John Philpot Curran
metaphor convince
Metaphors convince at once or not at all. Mason Cooley
metaphor
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor humans human-thought
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, Gerald Edelman
metaphor myth walt
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Jeff Smith
metaphor materials
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. J. T. Walsh