{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression like an ocean, unsurmountable. It swallows me whole and gnaws at my very bones. It floods me over and over, drowning me over and over... It is a torturous broken record player with a scratched disc on repeat, the wailing disrupting any possible good remaining after the tsunami. It wails and wails inside my ribcage and inside my skull. I cannot make it stop.","author":"Moonshine Noire","tags":["agony","bones","depression","loneliness","mental-disorders","mental-health","metaphors","ocean","records","sea","similes","torture","tsunami","waves"],"id":7256,"author_id":"Moonshine+Noire"},{"text":"The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["brain","fear","fearless","fearlessness","heart","metaphor","metaphors","motivation","motivation","motivation","motivational","motivational","passion","self-help","self-improvement"],"id":12319,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows... I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["books","literature","metaphors","reading","words"],"id":32873,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["bloody","choose","colorful","declaration-of-war","faction","metaphors","read","sacred","spiritual","wohderful","world","writings"],"id":36512,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.","author":"Peter Gould","tags":["metaphors","thoughts","words","writing"],"id":55481,"author_id":"Peter+Gould"},{"text":"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["blossoms","dawn","famous","gardens","inspiration","language","light","literary-inspiration","metaphors","midnight","national-poetry-month","poem-in-your-pocket-day","poetry","poets","about-poets","savannah--and-poets","world-poetry-day"],"id":61575,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"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":"We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.You have never spoken before.","author":"China Miéville","tags":["cities","embassytown","language","lies-that-speak-truth","metaphors","similes","speech"],"id":71934,"author_id":"China+Mi%C3%A9ville"},{"text":"Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.","author":"John Donne","tags":["adornment","brides","brightness","happiness","imagery","jewels","joy","light","metaphors","phoenix","radiance","stars","sun","wedding"],"id":73864,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.","author":"Emlyn Chand","tags":["emlyn-chand","farsighted","metaphors","open-heart","thinking","ya","young-adult"],"id":90868,"author_id":"Emlyn+Chand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}