"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

Metaphor, Speech, Writing

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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Food, Faith, Dance, Dream

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Car, Journey, Life, Attention

"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Metaphor, Myth, Transformation, Beauty, Courage

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Metaphor, Ocean, Insanity, Heart, Vanity

"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Metaphor, Grace, Life, Fate, Nature

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

Libba Bray, American Author

Metaphor, Transformation, Change, Awareness, Nature

"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Metaphor, Success, Path, Dance, Life

"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Metaphor, Sound, Emotion, Nature

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Metaphor, Love, Death, Power, Comparison

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Metaphor, Healing, Transformation, Light, Hope

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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."

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"Everything we do has consequences."

Consequence

"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

Childhood

"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."

People

"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."

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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

Myth

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."

"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter

"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."

"Everything we do has consequences."

"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."

"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."

"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."