#metaphoric

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#appetites #applied #delight #favorite #kinds

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification

With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kings While trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head; No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds, But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung. Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength; Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hour Sees happiness from utter desolation grow. (A Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, translated by V.E. Watts) ↗

— Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation

#metaphorical #philosophical #inspirational

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#connection #discovery #does #form #gesture

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air. ↗

— Keren Ann

#air #breathing #i #me #metaphoric

Don't worry you will never find a rounded square ↗

— Greigon Selwyn Mott

#inspirational #metaphorical #inspirational

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

Am I the moss on your bark, then?" Ani asked. Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionately. "You're the mossiest girl I know. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#metaphorical #humor

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically. ↗

— LaToya London

#getting #house #i #mean #metaphorically