Metaphor Quotes

"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" "I’m like Shaq, I don’t see nobody" "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it" "The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick." "Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for quite a different schooling."