Metaphors


The Neverending Story
Metaphors We Live By
Animal Farm
You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)
The Little Prince
Siddhartha
Paper Towns
The Alchemist
East of Eden
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Little Fires Everywhere
Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1)
I Talk Like a River
I Am Every Good Thing
Shatter Me by Tahereh MafiDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorLips Touch by Laini TaylorBlackbringer by Laini TaylorOnce Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount
Most Beautifully-Written YA Books
67 books — 60 voters
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin1984 by George OrwellSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
SFF: Best Themes
18 books — 11 voters

Andrei Tarkovsky
We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tool ...more
Andrei Tarkovsky

Hermann Hesse
Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blütenüberfluss sonst wär' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss. ...more
Hermann Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

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