Quotes Tagged With :metaphors

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were....

Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell....

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo....

[His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that.....

I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the....

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in....