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An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in me... by Carl Jung

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

Carl Jung
metaphor firsts

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Carl Sagan
independence psychology metaphor
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. by Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Charles Henry Parkhurst
supreme metaphor insight

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

Christina, Queen of Sweden
metaphor shapes speak
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? by Chuck Palahniuk

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Chuck Palahniuk
metaphor television thinking

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Conrad Hall
metaphor cinema emotion

Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.

Craig Blomberg
apocalyptic metaphor assuming

50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

Curtis Jackson
projects metaphor names
I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they... by David Boreanaz

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

David Boreanaz
metaphor make-sense sometimes
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metap... by David Edelstein

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

David Edelstein
hype delusional metaphor

I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman
metaphor technique book

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Deborah Copaken
rectangles metaphor littles
Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what woul... by Denise Linn

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

Denise Linn
metaphor body messages
Metaphor is embodied in language. by Dennis Potter

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Dennis Potter
metaphor language

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

Dennis Potter
metaphor speech writing

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

Derek Walcott
metaphor shadow
Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness. by Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Deepak Chopra
metaphor consciousness life-is

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Dorianne Laux
metaphor simple writing

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Edmundo Desnoes
metaphor moments add

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

Edward Hirsch
metaphor form development
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