Top Metaphor Quotes

  • metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love – Milan Kundera

    metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love– Milan Kundera

  • An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. – Robert Frost

    An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.– Robert Frost

  • It’s comforting to me,- he added, -œthat beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor. – Keith Hollihan

    It’s comforting to me,- he added, -œthat beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.– Keith Hollihan

  • The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. – Joseph Campbell

    The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.– Joseph Campbell

  • The earth is buzzing with metaphor – Osip Mandelstam

    The earth is buzzing with metaphor– Osip Mandelstam

  • The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed. – GR Gopinath

    The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.– GR Gopinath

  • Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. – Rachel Hartman

    Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.– Rachel Hartman

  • The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image. – Amit Kalantri

    The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.– Amit Kalantri

  • The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor. – John Kasich

    The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.– John Kasich

  • The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.– Ralph Waldo Emerson