Metaphor Quotes

"The world is a blossoming orchard, a garden lit by fireflies and roses" "The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell" "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field" "The entire life of man is a struggle in the dark" "A curve is more powerful than a sword" "Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass" "Resistance has no strength of its own. Ever see an ogre blow out an empty paper bag?" "The world is an emanation of the Beloved's beauty, and life a mirror reflecting it" "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope" "The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "The soul is the prison of the body" "It’s a metaphor see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth but you don’t give it the power to do its killing" "Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread " "Life is not a crystal stair, but a journey full of struggles and songs." "We are the bees of the invisible. We gather the honey of the visible and store it in the great golden hive of the invisible." "The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage" "The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness." "We are all sailors on an alien sea " "Life is a lot like skateboarding"