Metaphor Quotes

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows" "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars" "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see" "It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean." "On the road from the City of Skepticism I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity" "The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them" "Bring me the sunset in a cup" "Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky." "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." "I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "As soon go kindle fire with snow" "Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended" "Inside every man there are two wolves battling" "In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision" "Invisible cities are a dream that rises to the sky and falls back to the earth to become solid again" "And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture." "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower" "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven" "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it"