I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am a gun without bullets. I am the truth without someone to hear it. I am a feeling without someone to feel it. This is who I am. A mess without you. Something beautiful with you.
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Quotes tagged ‘Metaphors’
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
If we can imagine particularly original or compelling metaphors, it can help people to imagine what we're feeling! Good metaphors make my experiences more real to you, and yours more real to me, which is kind of what language is supposed to do, right?
A knife is just a rock who was willing to reject 90% of its true self to achieve something.
The future is but a quack at the court of Chronos.
People are birds unable to fly.
Whenever a piece of information is stored in memory, additional information should be stored with it telling where to find the next (associated) piece of information. In this way the entire memory could be organized like a long string of beads, but with the individual beads of the string stored in a…
A good and strong memory is a tower in the mist.
Look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.
You have grown so much because you have quietly realized you aren't just teardrops. You are an ocean.
You have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.
The very thought of you has my legs spread apart like an easel with a canvas begging for art.
Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.
We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light to itself, with no change in its substance.
The Grand Canyon is like a hundred throusand cathedrals standing on their heads.
I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.