A metaphor is like a simile.
. . . a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
A man's whole life may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot is symbol.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me. . . I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
A bridge is a meeting place. . . a possibility, a metaphor.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth. . . We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.