#metaphoric

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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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

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#journey #metaphorical #research #travel #attitude

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 think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. ↗

— Angie Stone

#being #being rich #embrace #girl #i

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

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light. ↗

— Lee Argus

#darkness #death #lee-argus #life #metaphor

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