#metaphor

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#faith

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

Am I the moss on your bark, then?" Ani asked. Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionately. "You're the mossiest girl I know. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#metaphorical #humor

فالذكاء والغباء واحد لا يفرقهما إلا الواقع اما في الخيال الغبي ذكي ملعون والذكي أغبى من أن يعيش الواقع ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #metaphore #wisdom #inspirational

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place. ↗

— Matt Simpson

#life #living #metaphor #life

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#literature #metaphor #writing #education

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#metaphor #life

putriku menaiki lidah petir. membangunkan setiap raksasa malas. mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup. menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran. ↗

— Dorothea Rosa Herliany

#life #metaphor #play #life

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#metaphor #poetry #wisdom #love

Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, is the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art form one would praise by saying it's "invisible"? By definition, art transcends the ordinary, calls attention to itself, and offers virtuosity as its calling card. One that makes it possible to do what metaphor does so well: illuminate what can't be wholly understood. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#language #metaphor #writing #art