#metaphor

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Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain


Zora Neale Hurston


#simile #simile

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.


M. H. Abrams


#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?


Damon Albarn


#around #cartoon #celebrity #change #culture

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.


Mary Catherine Bateson


#changing #disappearing #family #look #metaphors

That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?


Antonia Michaelis


#love #metaphor #trust #love

I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.


Sophie Kinsella


#love #metaphor #love

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.


Wallace Stevens


#metaphor #reality #imagination

We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it's a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it.


Andrei Tarkovsky


#symbols #description

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.


Susan Sontag


#melancholy #metaphor

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.


Miranda July


#writing-craft #metaphor