Cloak/metaphor

Famous quotes containing the words cloak and/or metaphor:

    To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled—because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    —fur-petalled chrysanthemum,
    squirrel-killer—
    is a metaphor only if I
    force him to be one....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)