The earth is buzzing with metaphor
– Osip Mandelstam
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- No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn’t working, that the teachers are losing the battle. – Adam Rapp
- Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? – Theodore Roethke
- Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair. – Carla H Krueger
- There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise. – Missy Lyons
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- Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth. – Vinita Kinra
- Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. – Robert McKee
- I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world. – Charles Bowden
- A man’s whole life / may be a metaphor – but a woman’s lot / is symbol. – Lorna Dee Cervantes
- If you want to change the world, change the metaphor. – Joseph Campbell
- Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been -œa means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. – Jack D Zipes
- The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. – Pierre Bourdieu
- It’s a mind, it works by metaphor. – Simon J Townley
- The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man – Jos Ortega y Gasset
- Reality is a clich̩ from which we escape by metaphor. РWallace Stevens
- Just because something is a metaphor doesn’t mean it can’t be real. – Terry Pratchett
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- I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. – Munia Khan
- Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying. – James Wood
- …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
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- They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face… – Robert K Tanenbaum
- Out of Box- is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. – Pearl Zhu
- The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor. – Aberjhani
- A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. – Neil Postman
- Quite a metaphor. The person in the most pain wins. Does that mean I get a Blue Ribbon? – Tom Perrotta
- … a metaphor … is like lying but more decorative. – Terry Pratchett
- It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die – Thomas Page McBee
- The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor. – John Kasich
- Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. – Rachel Hartman
- The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed. – GR Gopinath
- The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. – Joseph Campbell
- An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. – Robert Frost
- metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love – Milan Kundera