Metaphorical Imagery Quotes

Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

I love films that are many things at the same time while being simple.

I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

Look at 'Marienbad' honestly. What is it? It is just another talking radio show with pictures. Nobody acts. People stand around while the author talks about the woodwork.

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one and slotting them into others.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.