Famous quotes containing the words cloak and/or metaphor:
“He-who-came-forth was
it turned out
a man—
Moves among us from room to room of our life
in boots, in jeans, in a cloak of flame....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)