Metaphor Quotes

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree" "Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light" "Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark" "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root" "In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees." "As for death, he is waiting with his scissors in that green, voiceless opportunity beyond the garden." "Hope is a sort of religion, and perhaps it is the greatest religion of all, because it reaches the sky." "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams." "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." "The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee a clover any time to him is aristocracy" "Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree." "Expect poison from the standing water " "The cistern contains; the fountain overflows " "Love is like a rose the joy of all the earth" "Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you" "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself" "Could it think, the heart would stop beating. " "The gold of the adventurer is not the same as the gold of the alchemist"