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)

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