{"quotes":[{"text":"I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bedrooms","fact","husband","living","living life","metaphor","metaphorical","metaphors","metaphors-similies","poems","poetry","poetry-life","poetry","separate","wife","wisdom","without"],"id":65696,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.","author":"Zanjabil","tags":["critical-thinking","humor","inspirational","knowledge","metaphorical","politics","poor","rich","truth","wisdom"],"id":69169,"author_id":"Zanjabil"},{"text":"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["inspirational-attitude","journey","metaphorical","research","travel"],"id":180778,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artists","deep-thoughts","digging","enjoyment","learning","metaphorical","pain","poet","scenery","strength-through-adversity","unstoppable","writing"],"id":205210,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Aristotle declared that, ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’ Does the intrinsic tension between opposing ideas create a lamplight of stereoscopic vision? Does the mental friction generated by antinomy, a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles, lead to war within the mind or does the natural rasping of abrasive thoughts spur the mind to create soothing metaphorical thoughts in order to attain conceptual peace?","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["contradictions","metaphorical","mindset","peacefulness","principles","thinking","thinking"],"id":224453,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous.","author":"Yukio Mishima","tags":["dangers","metaphor","metaphorical","smile","smiling"],"id":336029,"author_id":"Yukio+Mishima"},{"text":"The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.","author":"Marc Cameron","tags":["emotions","metaphor","metaphorical","sea"],"id":359463,"author_id":"Marc+Cameron"},{"text":"Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.","author":"Sarah Mlynowski","tags":["irony","metaphorical"],"id":361342,"author_id":"Sarah+Mlynowski"},{"text":"Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.","author":"Lee Argus","tags":["chance-escape","darkness","death","lee-argus","life","metaphor","metaphorical","orion-lee-argus"],"id":442733,"author_id":"Lee+Argus"},{"text":"I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.","author":"Chila Woychik","tags":["metaphor","metaphorical","rats","writing"],"id":464079,"author_id":"Chila+Woychik"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}