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Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom — Maddy Kobar

A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares. — David Joseph Cribbin

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I learned that true family is found in those who choose you. Wealth has nothing to do with it. — C.J. Redwine

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Unless you're the lead dog the view never changes ...
mercy out does justice every time:
always find your way back home/ — Bob Mitchley

Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you — Criss Jami

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician. — Kevin Spacey

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. — Juan Manuel, Prince Of Villena

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. — Siri Hustvedt

I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in. — Rachel Sklar

Every moment is an opportunity to become more enlightened, more open and expanded. Continually choose that path and you will be free. — Dashama Konah Gordon

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. — Walter Mosley

You can have a zillion nothings and still have nothing — Saadi

I simply believe that you should never tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy,' said Blume. — Conor Fitzgerald

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

a mind at rest frees the body to work at healing itself. — Carrie Anne Noble

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. — Mark Twain

Every single human cell contains "DNA," which is a special molecule that your body leaves behind at crime scenes so the police can identify you. — Dave Barry

love was never meant to be
just a metaphor
between the pages of poetry. — Sanober Khan

It's not poetry. It's not metaphor. It's instructions. — John Green

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. — Munia Khan

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors. — Ymatruz

She turned to go. The Beast would freeze if she left him there. He had saved her life. Cursing, — Liz Braswell

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger

To get what you want help others get what they want — Zig Ziglar

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston

Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight. — Rudy Francisco

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose. — David Joseph Cribbin