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Metaphor Quotes

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality"

"Whose voice was more like perfume to me than any sound designed to induce crushed wings and secret obedience"

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light"

"Life is a beach, I'm just playing in the sand"

"Takin' on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse."

"What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean."

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it"

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"Reality is as thin as paper"

"Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread "

"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."

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"

"I'm high, like a star, in the sky"

"Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable"

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