"It’s gonna rain, it's gonna rain,
You better get ready and bear this in mind.
God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, but fire next time!"
You better get ready and bear this in mind.
God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, but fire next time!"
—"Fire Next Time", by the Rev. Milton Brunson
"Why is Jaune trying to get with the Ice Queen when a sun goddess wants him all up in her?"
Finally the concrete denotation of the word is taken over into the poetic connotation, as in "though not the ocean, my heart brims with water" or "if the water of your heart be not clear...". Some most striking examples of this are found in modern poetry: "The water in the land of Yamato flows like heart" and "Down pours the heart of autumn".
The other image commonly used was that of fire. Here, collocations like "I burn for you" or "The fire of love burns bright within me" are typical, but the metaphor seems never to have reached the stage of "love is a fire". Prof. Yamanaka suggested that omofi and kofi might be punningly associated with fi 'fire', so that the metaphor was already included in these words.
The other image commonly used was that of fire. Here, collocations like "I burn for you" or "The fire of love burns bright within me" are typical, but the metaphor seems never to have reached the stage of "love is a fire". Prof. Yamanaka suggested that omofi and kofi might be punningly associated with fi 'fire', so that the metaphor was already included in these words.
— Messages of Love
, summarizing a lecture by Kei'ichi Yamanaka
, summarizing a lecture by Kei'ichi Yamanaka"Some are like water, some are like the heat,
Some are a melody, some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?"
Some are a melody, some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?"
— Alphaville, Forever Young
