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Metaphor Quotes by Famous Authors

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121. “What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Self-awareness, Identity, Perception, Psychology, Metaphor

122. “The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, “I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."”

Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Rebirth, Metaphor, Nature, Duality

123. “We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander – this is untrue when stated in dry prose – oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotrie?”

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Attachment, Enlightenment, Art, Metaphor

124. “The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Choices, Growth, Contrast, Metaphor

125. “While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Spirituality, Love, Humanity, Construction, Metaphor

126. “I have lost my dewdrop, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Loss, Longing, Nature, Beauty, Metaphor

127. “Why did the lamp go out? I shaded it with my cloak to save it from the wind, that is why the lamp went out. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Loss, Nurturing, Consequences, Metaphor, Relationships

128. “The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Intimacy, Perception, Cosmic Connection, Metaphor

129. “I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Longing, Aspiration, Illumination, Metaphor, Personal Reflection

130. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Life, Metaphor, Transition, Renewal

131. “Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Freedom, Warmth, Support, Metaphor

132. “A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Pain, Self-awareness, Healing, Introspection, Metaphor

133. “God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Spirituality, Creation, Divine Connection, Metaphor, Humanity

134. “Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Childhood, Mortality, Laughter, Metaphor

135. “Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Communication, Spirituality, Metaphor, Connection (duplicate Of Previous Entry)

136. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Communication, Spirituality, Metaphor, Connection

137. “The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Interdependence, Nature, Growth, Freedom, Metaphor

138. “Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Possibility, Dreams, Impotence, Metaphor, Existential Inquiry

139. “Naturally, it gave rise to a round of tears like an autumn shower that soon evaporates in the sunshine of love, leaving behind only a glow of moisture. When.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Emotions, Transience, Love, Seasons, Metaphor

140. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Appreciation, Nature, Metaphor, Perception

141. “In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Dreams, Subconscious, Imagination, Introspection, Metaphor

142. “The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.””

Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Rebirth, Metaphor, Nature, Duality

143. “Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.”

W.H. Auden

Injustice, History, Metaphor, Societal Impact, Human Consequence

144. “The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won’t be flowers.”

W.H. Auden

Foreboding, Nature, Negativity, Metaphor, Anticipation

145. “Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.”

W.H. Auden

Urban Life, Society, Competition, Language, Metaphor