Quotes about Metaphor

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.

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.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

A single metaphor can give birth to love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

The world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.