Top Metaphor Quotes
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Jack Schwartz
Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
Language is memory and metaphor.
Storm Jameson
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
John le Carre 
Joseph Campbell 
Mark Burnett 
Swoosie Kurtz 
Timothy Leary 
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Jack Schwartz 
65% of people like this quote
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley
59% of people like this quote
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
58% of people like this quote
Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
Thomas Harrison
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
56% of people like this quote
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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