134 quotes found
“There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.”
“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's n...”
“The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.”
“I smiled into the darkness. There was nothing "just" about metaphors, I was beginning to think; they followed me everywhere, illuminating and failing and illuminating again.”
“ You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you”
“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that ...”
“My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.”
“It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.”
“Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.”
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing tha...”
“Its a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.”
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to...”
“You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.”
“A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.”
“...as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...”
“Peeling an OrangeBetween you and a bowl of oranges I lie nudeReading The Worlds Illusion through my tears.You reach across me hungry for global fruit,Your bare arm hard, furry and warm on my belly....”
“The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.”
“...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.”
“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh...”
“But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down and eventually your muscles giv...”
