allegorical expression Quotes

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.