“Metaphor is the crucial aspect of language whereby it retains its connectedness to the world, and”

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It’s a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs

The pivotal scene in ‘AK,’ where Jackie Shroff ‘s character Singaperumal parades around his room in the buff, is a metaphor for his false sense of prde and arrogance

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

If you remember only one thing I’ve said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don’t know what it’s all about.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

If you ever leave me, baby Leave some morphine at my door ’cause it would take a whole lot of medication To realize what we used to have We don’t have it anymore

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her, you are her poet. But that’s all there’s to it.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.