#metaphor

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

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#metaphor #pride #purr #smile #art

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. ↗

— George Eliot

#thought #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

Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber. ↗

— Hideo Azuma

#life

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #metaphor #love

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. ↗