Cloak/metaphor

Famous quotes containing the words cloak and/or metaphor:

    “But he lay like a warrior taking his rest
    With his martial cloak around him.”
    —Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)

    “By metaphor you paint
    A thing. Thus, the pineapple was a leather fruit,
    A fruit for pewter, thorned and palmed and blue,
    To be served by men of ice.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)