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Tag Name "Metaphor" (472)

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Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Marshall McLuhan
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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
Mason Cooley
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
Aristotle
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Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
Jane Hirshfield
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Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
Thom Yorke
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
Richard Rohr
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Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
Richelle Mead
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Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
Rachel Hartman
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Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Giannina Braschi
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Northrop Frye
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
Milan Kundera
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Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.
Pat Pattison
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Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.
Polly Young-Eisendrath
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Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
Jose Bernardo
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Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
James Geary
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
James Russell Lowell
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Richard Dawkins
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
Twyla Tharp
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Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Wallace Stevens
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolano
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Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Joseph Campbell
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin
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