Quotes on Simile

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?