Famous quotes containing the words cloak and/or metaphor:
“Hidden by old age awhile
In maskers cloak and hood,
Each hating what the other loved,
Face to face we stood:
That I have met with such, said he,
Bodes me little good.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)