Metaphor Quotes

• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

  

  Aristotle
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Greatest

• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

  

  Aristotle
  • Style
  • Thing
  • Greatest

• If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?

  

  K.K. Raghava
  • Technology
  • Memories
  • Metaphor

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  

  Aristotle
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Master

• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Association

• Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Use
  • Metaphor
  • Trash

• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Ancient

• The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Metaphor
  • Acts
  • Origin

• I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Metaphor
  • Studliness

• The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Self

• I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.

  

  David Biespiel
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Argument

• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Metaphor

• 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.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Delicate
  • Rainy

• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Running
  • Get Out

• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Obvious
  • Intrigue

• I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Metaphor
  • Cowards
  • Scaredycats

• Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Way
  • Moon
  • Term

• As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Community
  • Economy
  • Order

• Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Metaphor
  • Los Angeles
  • Honey

• Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Process
  • Fiction
  • Metaphor

• Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the common place.

  

  Aristotle
  • Place
  • Common
  • Halfway

• Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Facts
  • Fiction
  • Lion

1

2

3

4

5

6

previous

next